The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 89
So Stan had to stay and do the old mother service.
Who acts: Stan · What happens: have, stay, do · To what, where: old mother service
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 had | advmod |
| 2 | Stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 stay | mark |
| 5 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 do | cc |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stay | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 service | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 service | amod |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 service | compound |
| 11 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Stan | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stay | to-infinitive | Stan not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | infinitive | Stan not said here | the old mother service | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=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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