The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 65
‘I fight you?’ replied Stan, ‘why I could slay you with one breath!’
Who acts: I, Stan · What happens: fight, reply, slay · To what, where: 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 (I, Stan), 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 | _ | 3 fight | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 fight | nsubj |
| 3 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | ccomp |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 fight | obj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 fight | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 fight | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 slay | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 slay | punct |
| 11 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 slay | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 slay | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 slay | aux |
| 14 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replied | parataxis |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 slay | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 breath | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 breath | nummod |
| 18 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 slay | obl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 slay | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 slay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | present | I | you | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Stan | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | slay | could | I | you | with one breath | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent you=Patient with breath=Instrument |
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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