The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 25
He carries a club of iron, and two white men could hardly lift it.
Who acts: hunger, two white men · What happens: carry, lift · To what, where: club
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunger, two white men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 carries | nsubj |
| 2 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 club | det |
| 4 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carries | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 iron | case |
| 6 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 club | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lift | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lift | cc |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 men | nummod |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 men | amod |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lift | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 lift | aux |
| 13 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 14 lift | advmod |
| 14 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 carries | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lift | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carries | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | hunger | a club of iron | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lift | could | two white men | club | hardly property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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