The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 26
And he whispered in her ear: ‘I’ve found a pot full of gold and silver in the forest!
Who acts: husband, I · What happens: whisper, find · To what, where: ear, pot, forest
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 whispered | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 whispered | nsubj |
| 3 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 ear | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 ear | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 whispered | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 found | nsubj |
| 10 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 found | aux |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 whispered | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pot | det |
| 13 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obj |
| 14 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pot | amod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 gold | case |
| 16 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 full | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 silver | cc |
| 18 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gold | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 forest | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 forest | det |
| 21 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | past | husband | luck's ear | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location | ||||
| 2 | find | present · perfect | I | a pot | the forest | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Topic |
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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