The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 51

But though he quite understood that it was almost hopeless to fight against such a powerful monster, yet the thought of the hungry children at home clung to him like a burr, and would not be shaken off, and at last he said to the shepherd, ‘What will you give me if I rid you of the dragon?’

Who acts: Stan, it, you, I · What happens: understand, be, fight, cling, not shake off, say · To what, where: thought, hungry children, Stan, last, me, you · 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, it, you, I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 understood	cc
2	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 understood	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 understood	nsubj
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 understood	advmod
5	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 hopeless	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hopeless	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hopeless	cop
9	almost	almost	ADV	_	10 hopeless	advmod
10	hopeless	hopeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 understood	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 fight	mark
12	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hopeless	xcomp
13	against	against	ADP	_	17 monster	case
14	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	17 monster	det:predet
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 monster	det
16	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 monster	amod
17	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fight	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thought	punct
19	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	21 thought	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 thought	det
21	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 understood	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 children	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 children	det
24	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 children	amod
25	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 thought	nmod
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 home	case
27	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 children	nmod
28	clung	cling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 children	acl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 clung	obl
31	like	like	ADP	_	33 burr	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 burr	det
33	burr	burr	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 clung	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 shaken	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 shaken	cc
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 shaken	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 shaken	advmod
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 shaken	aux:pass
39	shaken	shake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 understood	parataxis
40	off	off	ADP	_	39 shaken	compound:prt
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 said	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 said	cc
43	at	at	ADP	_	44 last	case
44	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 said	obl
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 said	nsubj
46	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 understood	parataxis
47	to	to	ADP	_	49 shepherd	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 shepherd	det
49	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 said	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 give	punct
51	‘	'	PUNCT	_	55 give	punct
52	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	55 give	obj
53	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 give	aux
54	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	55 give	nsubj
55	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 said	ccomp
56	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 give	iobj
57	if	if	SCONJ	_	59 rid	mark
58	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	59 rid	nsubj
59	rid	rid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 give	advcl
60	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	59 rid	obj
61	of	of	ADP	_	63 dragon	case
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 dragon	det
63	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 rid	obl
64	?	?	PUNCT	_	55 give	punct
65	’	'	PUNCT	_	55 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	understand	past	Stan	the thought of the hungry children at home				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	it				almost, hopeless property	tree rules
3	fight	to-infinitive					against such powerful monster	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cling	participle		the hungry children at home not said here	Stan		like a burr	vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to he=Co-Theme
5	not shake off	would · passive						vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»
6	say speech: assert	past	Stan			last	to the shepherd	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to shepherd=Experiencer clause=Topic
7	give	future	you		me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Theme
8	rid a condition, not said to happen	past	I	you			of the dragon	vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Source of dragon=Theme
9	think			the hungry children at home				nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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