The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 32
‘What strange things one hears, wife!
Who acts: one · What happens: hear · To what, where: strange things
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 (one), 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 | _ | 4 things | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 things | nsubj |
| 3 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 things | amod |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 hears | nsubj |
| 6 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 things | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wife | punct |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 things | appos |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 things | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | one | strange things not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
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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