The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 55
At present night was not far off, and he must consider how best to fight with the dragon.
Who acts: matter · What happens: not be, consider, fight · To what, where: best
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 (matter), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 7 off | case |
| 2 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 night | amod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 off | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 off | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 off | advmod |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 off | advmod |
| 7 | off | off | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 consider | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 consider | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 consider | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 consider | aux |
| 12 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 off | conj |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 best | advmod |
| 14 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 consider | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 fight | mark |
| 16 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 consider | xcomp |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 dragon | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dragon | det |
| 19 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fight | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 off | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | night | far, off property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | consider | must | matter | best | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent good=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fight | to-infinitive | matter not said here | with the dragon | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with dragon=Co-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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