The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 151
In the evening the dragon and his mother had a long talk, but Stan heard every word through a crack in the ceiling.
Who acts: dragon, Stan · What happens: have, hear · To what, where: long talk, word, crack
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 (dragon, Stan), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dragon | det |
| 5 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 mother | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dragon | conj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 talk | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 talk | amod |
| 12 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 heard | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 heard | cc |
| 15 | Stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 heard | nsubj |
| 16 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 had | conj |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 word | det |
| 18 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heard | obj |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 crack | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 crack | det |
| 21 | crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heard | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 ceiling | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ceiling | det |
| 24 | ceiling | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heard | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the dragon and Stan's mother | a long talk | evening | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Patient | |||
| 2 | hear | past | Stan | every word | a crack | in the ceiling | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
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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