The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 53
The young man laughed, and said: ‘It appears that I have got to learn all kinds of farmer’s work.
Who acts: young man, It, I, farmer · What happens: laugh, say, appear, get, learn, work · To what, where: kinds · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (young man, It, I, farmer), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laughed | nsubj |
| 4 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 laughed | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 appears | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 appears | punct |
| 10 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 appears | nsubj |
| 11 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 got | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 got | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 got | aux |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 appears | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 learn | mark |
| 17 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 got | xcomp |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 kinds | det |
| 19 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 learn | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 work | case |
| 21 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 work | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 farmer | case |
| 23 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kinds | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | the young man | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the young man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | appear | present | It | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | get | present · perfect | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | learn | to-infinitive | I not said here | all kinds of farmer's work | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Topic | ||||
| 6 | work | farmer | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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