The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 6
‘Leave me alone, and do not seek to know the reason,’ replied she, bursting into tears, and the man thought that it was no time to question her, and went away to his work.
Who acts: wife, man, reason · What happens: leave, not seek, know, reply, burst, think · To what, where: me, reason, tears, time, wife, work · 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 (wife, man, reason), 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 | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 2 | Leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 replied | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Leave | obj |
| 4 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 2 Leave | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seek | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 seek | cc |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 seek | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 seek | advmod |
| 9 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Leave | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 know | mark |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 seek | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 reason | det |
| 13 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 know | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 16 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 replied | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bursting | punct |
| 19 | bursting | burst | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 replied | advcl |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 tears | case |
| 21 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 bursting | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 thought | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 thought | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 thought | nsubj |
| 26 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 replied | parataxis |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 time | mark |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 time | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 time | cop |
| 30 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 31 time | det |
| 31 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 thought | ccomp |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 question | mark |
| 33 | question | question | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 time | acl |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 question | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 went | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 went | cc |
| 37 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 thought | conj |
| 38 | away | away | ADV | _ | 37 went | advmod |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 work | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 work | nmod:poss |
| 41 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 went | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | infinitive | me | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not seek | infinitive · do-support | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | the reason | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | wife | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | burst | gerund | wife not said here | tears | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other | past | the man | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is a | past | reason | no time | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | question speech: other | to-infinitive | the man not said here | wife | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 9 | go away | past | the man not said here | man's work | away property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to work=Initial_Location | |||
| 10 | work | man | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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