The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 103
Then Stan seated himself on the sack of provisions, and remained quietly watching the setting moon.
Who acts: Stan · What happens: seat, remain, watch · To what, where: Stan, sack, setting moon
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stan), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 seated | advmod |
| 2 | Stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 seated | nsubj |
| 3 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 seated | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 sack | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sack | det |
| 7 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seated | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 provisions | case |
| 9 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sack | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 remained | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 remained | cc |
| 12 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seated | conj |
| 13 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 12 remained | advmod |
| 14 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 remained | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 moon | det |
| 16 | setting | setting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 moon | compound |
| 17 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 watching | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past | Stan | Stan | the sack of provisions | then | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value | ||
| 2 | remain | past | Stan not said here | quietly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | watch | gerund | Stan not said here | the setting moon | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=Theme |
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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