The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 58
‘You or I,’ said Stan to himself, and took up his position on the edge of the flock.
Who acts: I · What happens: say, take up · To what, where: Stan, position, edge · 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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 I | nsubj |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 I | cc |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 I | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 I | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 himself | case |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 took | compound:prt |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 position | nmod:poss |
| 16 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 edge | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 edge | det |
| 19 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 flock | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 flock | det |
| 22 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 edge | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | I | Stan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | take up | past | I not said here | Stan's position | the edge of the flock | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent position=Theme on edge=Destination |
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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