The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 85
‘Listen, mother,’ said the dragon as soon as they were alone, ‘I have brought this man in order to get rid of him.
Who acts: things, I · What happens: listen, say, be, bring, get · To what, where: mother, dragon, man, order · 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 (things, I), 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 | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 2 | Listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mother | punct |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Listen | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dragon | det |
| 9 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 soon | advmod |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 said | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 alone | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 alone | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 alone | cop |
| 15 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 11 soon | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 brought | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 brought | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 brought | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 brought | aux |
| 20 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 said | conj |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 man | det |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brought | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 order | case |
| 24 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brought | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 get | mark |
| 26 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 brought | advcl |
| 27 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 get | xcomp |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 rid | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | infinitive | mother | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the dragon | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | things = thing | alone property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bring | present · perfect | I | this man | order | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination | |||
| 5 | get | to-infinitive | I not said here | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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