The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 86

He is a terrific fellow who eats rocks, and can press buttermilk out of a stone,’ and he told her all that had happened the night before.

Who acts: man, terrific fellow, that · What happens: be, eat, press, tell, happen · To what, where: terrific fellow, rocks, buttermilk, stone, mother · 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 (man, terrific fellow, that), 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	5 fellow	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fellow	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fellow	det
4	terrific	terrific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fellow	amod
5	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 eats	nsubj
7	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fellow	acl:relcl
8	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eats	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 press	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 press	cc
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 press	aux
12	press	press	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 fellow	parataxis
13	buttermilk	buttermilk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 press	obj
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 stone	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 stone	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 stone	det
17	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 press	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 press	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 press	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 told	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	nsubj
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 press	conj
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	iobj
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 happened	det:predet
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 happened	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 happened	aux
27	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 told	ccomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 night	det
29	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 happened	obl:unmarked
30	before	before	ADV	_	27 happened	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fellow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	man	a terrific fellow					tree rules
2	eat	present	a terrific fellow	rocks					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Patient
3	press	can		buttermilk		a stone			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buttermilk=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	man		mother				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	happen	past · perfect	that				night	before property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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