The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 79
He did not waste words, but nodded to the dragon, and they started along the road.
Who acts: Stan, words · What happens: not waste, nod, start · To what, where: words, dragon
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, words), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 waste | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 waste | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 waste | advmod |
| 4 | waste | waste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 waste | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 nodded | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 nodded | cc |
| 8 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 waste | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 dragon | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dragon | det |
| 11 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nodded | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 started | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 started | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 started | nsubj |
| 15 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 nodded | conj |
| 16 | along | along | ADP | _ | 18 road | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 road | det |
| 18 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 started | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 waste | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not waste | past · do-support | Stan | words | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | ||||
| 2 | nod | past | the dragon | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to dragon=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | start | past | words = word | along the road | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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