The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 37
‘Oh, but not one too many,’ smiled his wife, coming up with a crowd more children clinging to her skirts.
Who acts: one, more children · What happens: smile, come up, cling · To what, where: wife
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 (one, more 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 | _ | 11 smiled | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 11 smiled | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 smiled | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 smiled | cc |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 one | advmod |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 smiled | nsubj |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 many | advmod |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 one | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| 11 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 smiled | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 coming | punct |
| 15 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 smiled | advcl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 coming | compound:prt |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 children | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 crowd | det |
| 19 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 children | nsubj |
| 20 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 children | amod |
| 21 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 coming | obl |
| 22 | clinging | cling | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 children | acl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 skirts | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 skirts | nmod:poss |
| 25 | skirts | skirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 clinging | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 smiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | past | one | Stan's wife | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come up | gerund | one not said here | with more children | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cling | gerund | more children not said here | to crowd's skirts | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to skirt=Co-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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