The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 25
Some weeks had passed, and Stan thought he would consult a wise man who lived a day’s journey from his own house.
Who acts: Stan, wise man, day · What happens: pass, think, consult, live, journey · To what, where: weeks, wise man, journey, own house · 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 (Stan, wise man, day), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 weeks | det |
| 2 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | aux |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 thought | cc |
| 7 | Stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 thought | nsubj |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | advcl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 consult | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 consult | aux |
| 11 | consult | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 thought | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 consult | obj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 lived | nsubj |
| 16 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 man | acl:relcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 day | det |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 journey | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 day | case |
| 20 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lived | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 house | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 house | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 house | amod |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lived | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect · passive | some weeks | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Stan | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | consult | would | Stan | a wise man | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 4 | live | past | a wise man | a day's journey | Stan's own house | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme journey=Location | |||
| 5 | journey | a day | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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