The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 66
Then, stooping to pick up a large cheese which lay at his feet, he added, ‘Go and get a stone like this out of the river, so that we may lose no time in seeing who is the best man.’
Who acts: Stan, large cheese, we, time · What happens: stoop, pick up, lie, add, go, get · To what, where: large cheese, feet, stone, river, best man · 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, large cheese, we, time), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stooping | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | stooping | stoop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 added | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 pick | mark |
| 5 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stooping | xcomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 pick | compound:prt |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cheese | det |
| 8 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cheese | amod |
| 9 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pick | obj |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 lay | nsubj |
| 11 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cheese | acl:relcl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 feet | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 feet | nmod:poss |
| 14 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lay | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stooping | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 added | nsubj |
| 17 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Go | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 Go | punct |
| 20 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 added | ccomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 get | cc |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 Go | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 stone | det |
| 24 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obj |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 this | case |
| 26 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 get | obl |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 river | case |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 river | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 river | det |
| 30 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 lose | punct |
| 32 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 36 lose | mark |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 so | fixed |
| 34 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 lose | nsubj |
| 35 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 lose | aux |
| 36 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 Go | conj |
| 37 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 38 time | det |
| 38 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 lose | obj |
| 39 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 40 seeing | mark |
| 40 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 time | acl |
| 41 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 man | nsubj |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 man | cop |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 man | det |
| 44 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 45 man | amod |
| 45 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 seeing | ccomp |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 Go | punct |
| 47 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stoop | gerund | Stan not said here | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pick up | to-infinitive | Stan not said here | a large cheese | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Topic | ||||
| 3 | lie | past | a large cheese | Stan's feet | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location | ||||
| 4 | add speech: assert | past | Stan | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | get | infinitive | a stone | the river | like this | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stone=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | lose | may | we | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | see | gerund | no time not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 9 | is a | present | the best man | tree rules |
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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