The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 139
Before you could count three he had pulled up more trees than Stan could have cut down in a lifetime, and had arranged them neatly in rows.
Who acts: you · What happens: count, pull up, cut down, arrange · To what, where: three, pulled more trees, lifetime, trees, rows
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 (you), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 count | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 count | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 count | aux |
| 4 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pulled | aux |
| 8 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 trees | amod |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 pulled | compound:prt |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 trees | amod |
| 11 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 Stan | case |
| 13 | Stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 trees | nmod |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 cut | aux |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 cut | aux |
| 16 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 count | parataxis |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 cut | compound:prt |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 lifetime | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 lifetime | det |
| 20 | lifetime | lifetime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cut | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 arranged | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 arranged | cc |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 arranged | aux |
| 24 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 cut | conj |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 arranged | obj |
| 26 | neatly | neatly | ADV | _ | 24 arranged | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 rows | case |
| 28 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 arranged | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 count | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | could | you | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | pull up | past · perfect · passive | three | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cut down | could · perfect · passive | pulled more trees than Stan | a lifetime | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 4 | arrange | past · perfect | trees = tree | rows | neatly property | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in row=Destination |
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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