The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 158
‘When he is asleep take the club, and hit him on the head with it.
Who acts: man, you · What happens: be, take, hit · To what, where: club, man
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 (man, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
| 2 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 asleep | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 asleep | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 asleep | cop |
| 5 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 take | advcl |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 club | det |
| 8 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hit | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hit | cc |
| 11 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hit | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 head | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 head | det |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hit | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hit | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | man | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | imperative | you not said here | the club | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hit | past | you not said here | man | with head; on the head | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument on head=Patient |
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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