The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 123
So no more was heard of the club, and the next day they had all something else to think about.
Who acts: things · What happens: hear, have, think about · To what, where: more, something
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 (things), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 heard | advmod |
| 2 | no | no | ADV | _ | 3 more | advmod |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | aux:pass |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 club | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 club | det |
| 8 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 had | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 12 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 day | amod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | conj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 something | det |
| 17 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 had | obj |
| 18 | else | else | ADV | _ | 17 something | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 think | mark |
| 20 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 something | acl |
| 21 | about | about | ADV | _ | 20 think | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · passive | more | of the club | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | past | things = thing | something | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | |||
| 3 | think about speech: other | to-infinitive | things = thing not said here | something not said here | about property | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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