The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 118
‘Oh, dear me, that is indeed a strong man,’ said the dragon, turning to his mother.
Who acts: that, strong man · What happens: be, say, turn · To what, where: strong man, dragon · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (that, strong man), 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 dear | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 dear | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 dear | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 man | punct |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 man | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 man | cop |
| 9 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 12 man | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dear | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 man | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dragon | det |
| 17 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 turning | punct |
| 19 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 said | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 mother | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mother | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 turning | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | a strong man | indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a strong man not said here | the dragon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dragon=Topic | ||||
| 3 | turn | gerund | a strong man not said here | to man's mother result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mother=Result |
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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