The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 149
‘You are a good fellow, and I agree to your proposal,’ answered Stan, and the dragon carried the wood.
Who acts: You, I, good fellow, dragon, your · What happens: be, agree, answer, carry, propose · To what, where: good fellow, Stan, wood
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, I, good fellow, dragon), 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 | _ | 6 fellow | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 fellow | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fellow | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fellow | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fellow | amod |
| 6 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 answered | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 agree | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 agree | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 agree | nsubj |
| 10 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fellow | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 proposal | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 proposal | nmod:poss |
| 13 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 agree | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fellow | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 fellow | punct |
| 16 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 answered | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 carried | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 carried | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 dragon | det |
| 21 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carried | nsubj |
| 22 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 answered | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 wood | det |
| 24 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carried | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | You | a good fellow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | present | I | to your proposal | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | a good fellow | Stan | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent stan=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | carry | past | the dragon | the wood | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme | ||||
| 5 | propose | your | nom proposal «communication intransitive»: poss=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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