The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 192
Suddenly an idea came into Stan’s head, and he turned round.
Who acts: idea, Stan · What happens: come, turn round · To what, where: head
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 (idea, 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 idea | det |
| 3 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 6 | Stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Stan | case |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 turned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 turned | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 turned | nsubj |
| 12 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 13 | round | round | ADV | _ | 12 turned | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a idea | Stan's head | suddenly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into head=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | turn round | past | Stan | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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