The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 50
The shepherd bewailed himself in vain: the dragon only laughed, and Stan saw that this was not the place to get food for his family.
Who acts: shepherd, dragon, Stan, this · What happens: bewail, laugh, see, not be, get · To what, where: shepherd, vain, place, food · 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 (shepherd, dragon, Stan, this), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 shepherd | det |
| 2 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bewailed | nsubj |
| 3 | bewailed | bewail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 bewailed | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 vain | case |
| 6 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bewailed | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 laughed | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dragon | det |
| 9 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 laughed | nsubj |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 laughed | advmod |
| 11 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bewailed | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 14 | Stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 laughed | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 place | mark |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 place | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 place | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 place | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 place | det |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 get | mark |
| 23 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 place | acl |
| 24 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 get | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 family | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 family | nmod:poss |
| 27 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 get | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bewailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bewail | past | the shepherd | shepherd | vain | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | laugh | past | the dragon | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | past | Stan | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | not is a | past | this | the place | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | get | to-infinitive | Stan not said here | food | for Stan's family | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme for family=Source |
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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