The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 114
I will throw it a second time, and that will do just as well.’
Who acts: I, that · What happens: throw, do · To what, where: club
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 (I, that), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 throw | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 throw | aux |
| 3 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 throw | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 throw | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 do | cc |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 do | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 throw | parataxis |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 as | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 12 do | advmod |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 as | fixed |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 throw | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 throw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | future | I | club | time | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | future | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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