The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 111
He prized the club, which had been left him by his grandfather, very highly, and had no desire that it should be lost in the moon.
Who acts: Waiting, grandfather · What happens: prize, leave, have, lose · To what, where: club, desire, 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 (Waiting, grandfather), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 prized | nsubj |
| 2 | prized | prize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 club | det |
| 4 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 prized | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 left | punct |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 left | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 left | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 left | aux:pass |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 club | acl:relcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 left | obj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 grandfather | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 13 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 left | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 highly | punct |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 highly | advmod |
| 16 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 2 prized | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 had | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 had | cc |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 prized | conj |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 desire | det |
| 21 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 lost | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 lost | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 lost | aux:pass |
| 26 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 had | xcomp |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 moon | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 moon | det |
| 29 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lost | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 prized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prize | past | Waiting | the club | highly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer club=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect · passive | Waiting's grandfather | the club | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent subject=Theme he=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Waiting not said here | no desire | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lose | should · passive | club | the moon | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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