The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 43
To the hungry man any road is long, and then there was always the thought that he had to satisfy a hundred greedy children as well as himself.
Who acts: road, Stan · What happens: be, have, satisfy · To what, where: thought, hundred greedy children
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 (road, 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 man | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 long | obl |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 road | det |
| 6 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 long | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 long | cop |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thought | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 was | advmod |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 thought | cop |
| 14 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 16 thought | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 thought | det |
| 16 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 long | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 had | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 thought | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 satisfy | mark |
| 21 | satisfy | satisfy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 had | xcomp |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 hundred | det |
| 23 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 children | nummod |
| 24 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 children | amod |
| 25 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 satisfy | obj |
| 26 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 21 satisfy | advmod |
| 27 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 as | fixed |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 himself | case |
| 29 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 satisfy | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | any road | to the hungry man; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | any road not said here | the thought | always property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have | past | Stan | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | satisfy | to-infinitive | Stan not said here | hundred greedy children | as Stan | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer |
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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