The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 33
‘Oh, nothing but a rose tree on the edge of a wood, with a rose hanging on it.’
Who acts: rose · What happens: hang · To what, where: rose
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 (rose), 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 nothing | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 nothing | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 tree | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 7 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tree | compound |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nothing | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 edge | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 edge | det |
| 11 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tree | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 wood | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 wood | det |
| 14 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 edge | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rose | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 rose | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 rose | det |
| 18 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nothing | conj |
| 19 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 rose | acl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 hanging | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 nothing | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 nothing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | gerund | a rose not said here | rose | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location |
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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