The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 71
‘Well, if you can’t, I can,’ answered Stan, and he pressed the cheese till buttermilk flowed through his fingers.
Who acts: Stan, buttermilk · What happens: answer, press, flow · To what, where: Stan, cheese, fingers
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, buttermilk), 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 | _ | 13 answered | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 13 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 n’t | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 n’t | nsubj |
| 6 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 n’t | aux |
| 7 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 answered | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 n’t | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 can | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 n’t | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 n’t | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 n’t | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 pressed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 pressed | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 pressed | nsubj |
| 18 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 answered | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cheese | det |
| 20 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pressed | obj |
| 21 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 23 flowed | mark |
| 22 | buttermilk | buttermilk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 flowed | nsubj |
| 23 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 pressed | advcl |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 fingers | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 26 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 flowed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Stan | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent stan=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | press | past | Stan | the cheese | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Theme | ||||
| 3 | flow | past | buttermilk | Stan's fingers | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through finger=Location |
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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