The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 194
‘I have a hundred children, and I am afraid they may do you harm, as they are always ready for a fight.
Who acts: I, children · What happens: have, be, do, harm · To what, where: hundred children, you
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, children), 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 | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hundred | det |
| 5 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 children | nummod |
| 6 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 afraid | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 afraid | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 afraid | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 afraid | cop |
| 11 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 have | conj |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 do | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | aux |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 afraid | ccomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 do | iobj |
| 16 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 do | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ready | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 ready | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ready | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 ready | cop |
| 21 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 22 ready | advmod |
| 22 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 afraid | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 fight | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 fight | det |
| 25 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ready | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | hundred children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | I | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | may | children = child | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | harm | infinitive | children = child not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | present | children = child | for a fight; always, ready property | tree rules |
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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