The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 16
‘Idiots!’ roared the master; ‘of course it was they!’
Who acts: Idiots · What happens: roar, be · To what, where: master, brook
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Idiots), 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 | _ | 2 Idiots | punct |
| 2 | Idiots | idiot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 roared | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Idiots | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Idiots | punct |
| 5 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 master | det |
| 7 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 roared | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 they | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 they | punct |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 11 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 of | fixed |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 they | obl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 they | cop |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 roared | conj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 they | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 roared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roar | past | Idiots | the master | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location master=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Idiots not said here | brook | of course | tree rules |
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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