The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 182
I know that they will cry out, “Just look at Stan Bolovan, who in one year has grown as weak as a dragon.”’
Who acts: I, Woe, Stan · What happens: know, cry out, look, grow · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, Woe, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 cry | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cry | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 cry | aux |
| 6 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 know | ccomp |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 cry | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 look | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 look | punct |
| 10 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 11 look | advmod |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cry | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 Stan | case |
| 13 | Stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 look | obl |
| 14 | Bolovan | Bolovan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Stan | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 grown | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 grown | nsubj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 year | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 year | nummod |
| 19 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 grown | obl |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 grown | aux |
| 21 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 Stan | acl:relcl |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 weak | advmod |
| 23 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 grown | xcomp |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 dragon | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 dragon | det |
| 26 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 weak | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | future | Woe | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | look in a quote | infinitive | Woe not said here | at Stan | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at stan=Theme | ||||
| 4 | grow in a quote | present · perfect | Stan | year | weak property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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