The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 165
Directly he had closed the door, Stan lifted out the pigs’ trough, and lay down himself, after making everything clean and tidy, but he was wise enough not to shut his eyes that night.
Who acts: Stan · What happens: close, lift out, lay down, make, be, not shut · To what, where: door, trough, Stan, everything, eyes
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 (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 | Directly | directly | ADV | _ | 4 closed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 closed | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 closed | aux |
| 4 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 closed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lifted | punct |
| 8 | Stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 lifted | nsubj |
| 9 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 closed | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 lifted | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pigs | det |
| 12 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 trough | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 12 pigs | case |
| 14 | trough | trough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lifted | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lay | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lay | cc |
| 17 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 lifted | conj |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 lay | advmod |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 lay | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 making | punct |
| 21 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 22 making | mark |
| 22 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 lay | advcl |
| 23 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 22 making | obj |
| 24 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 making | xcomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 tidy | cc |
| 26 | tidy | tidy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 clean | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 wise | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 wise | cc |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 wise | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 wise | cop |
| 31 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lifted | conj |
| 32 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 31 wise | advmod |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 shut | advmod |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 shut | mark |
| 35 | shut | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 wise | csubj |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 37 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 shut | obj |
| 38 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 night | det |
| 39 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 shut | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 closed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | past · perfect | Stan | the door | directly property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | |||
| 2 | lift out | past | Stan | the pigs's trough | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trough=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lay down | infinitive | Stan not said here | Stan | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Result | |||
| 4 | make | gerund | Stan not said here | everything | clean property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everything=Product | |||
| 5 | is | past | Stan | enough, wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not shut | to-infinitive | Stan's eyes | night | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=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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