The Violet Fairy Book, The Violet Fairy Book, sentence 16
As people grew more civilised and had kings and queens, princes and princesses, these exalted persons generally were chosen as heroes and heroines.
Who acts: people, these · What happens: grow, civilise, have, exalt, choose · To what, where: kings, persons
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Violet Fairy Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, these), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 grew | mark |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 civilised | advmod |
| 5 | civilised | civilise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 had | cc |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 8 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 had | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 queens | cc |
| 10 | queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 kings | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 princes | punct |
| 12 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 kings | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 princesses | cc |
| 14 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 kings | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 exalted | punct |
| 16 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 exalted | nsubj |
| 17 | exalted | exalt | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 18 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 exalted | obj |
| 19 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 21 chosen | advmod |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 chosen | aux:pass |
| 21 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 persons | acl |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 heroes | case |
| 23 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 chosen | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 heroines | cc |
| 25 | heroines | heroine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 heroes | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | people | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | civilise | participle | people not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | past | people not said here | kings and queens and princes and princesses | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient | ||||
| 4 | exalt | past | these | persons | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | choose | past · passive | persons not said here | as heroes and heroines; generally property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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