The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 90

The next day she told him that he and her son should try which was the strongest, and she took down a huge club, bound seven times with iron.

Who acts: mother, Stan · What happens: tell, try, be, take down · To what, where: Stan, huge club · 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 (mother, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obl:unmarked
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 try	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 try	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 son	cc
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 son	nmod:poss
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 he	conj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 try	aux
13	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 told	xcomp
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 strongest	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 strongest	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 strongest	det
17	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 try	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 took	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 took	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 took	nsubj
21	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	conj
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 took	compound:prt
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 club	det
24	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 club	amod
25	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 times	punct
27	bound	bound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 times	amod
28	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 times	nummod
29	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 club	appos
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 iron	case
31	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 times	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	mother		Stan	day		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	try not said to happen	should	Stan					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	is not said to happen	past					strong property	tree rules
4	take down	past	mother	a huge club				vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=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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