The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 78
The offer was very tempting, and Stan could not resist it.
Who acts: offer, Stan · What happens: be, not resist · To what, where: tempting, offer
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 (offer, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 offer | det |
| 2 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tempting | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tempting | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 tempting | advmod |
| 5 | tempting | tempting | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 resist | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 resist | cc |
| 8 | Stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 resist | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 resist | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 resist | advmod |
| 11 | resist | resist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tempting | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 resist | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tempting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the offer | tempting | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not resist | could | Stan | offer | 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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