The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 80
‘Do you know that this calf is so swift that in a single day he can run three times round the world?
Who acts: you, calf, unlucky · What happens: know, be, run · To what, where: world
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 (you, calf, unlucky), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 swift | mark |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 calf | det |
| 7 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swift | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 swift | cop |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 swift | advmod |
| 10 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 know | ccomp |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 run | mark |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 14 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 day | amod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 run | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 run | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 run | aux |
| 18 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 swift | advcl |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 times | nummod |
| 20 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 run | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | round | round | ADP | _ | 23 world | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 world | det |
| 23 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 run | obl |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | this calf | swift property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run | can | unlucky | the world | day; time | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round world=Trajectory |
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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