The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 112
The peas which I strewed about must have sprouted, so that we shall not miss the way.’
Who acts: peas, we · What happens: strew, sprout, not miss · To what, where: peas, way
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peas, we), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 peas | det |
| 2 | peas | pea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sprouted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 strewed | nsubj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 strewed | nsubj |
| 5 | strewed | strew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 peas | acl:relcl |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 strewed | advmod |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 sprouted | aux |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sprouted | aux |
| 9 | sprouted | sprout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 miss | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 miss | advmod |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 miss | mark |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 miss | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 miss | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 miss | advmod |
| 16 | miss | miss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sprouted | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 way | det |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 miss | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sprouted | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 sprouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strew | past | the peas | about property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sprout | must · perfect · passive | the peas | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Source | |||||
| 3 | not miss | shall | we | the way | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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