The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 8
At length he felt he could bear it no longer, and tried a third time, and then his wife turned and answered him.
Who acts: man, wife · What happens: feel, bear, try, turn, answer · To what, where: length, reason, man
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 (man, wife), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bear | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 bear | aux |
| 7 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 felt | ccomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bear | obj |
| 9 | no | no | ADV | _ | 10 longer | advmod |
| 10 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 bear | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tried | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 tried | cc |
| 13 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 15 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tried | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 turned | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 turned | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 turned | advmod |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 wife | nmod:poss |
| 21 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 turned | nsubj |
| 22 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | parataxis |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 answered | cc |
| 24 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 turned | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 answered | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | man | length | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bear | could | man | reason | long property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | try | past | man not said here | time | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | turn | past | man's wife | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | answer speech: assert | past | man's wife not said here | man | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=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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