The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 81
The governor took pity on the woman, and ordered his chief secretary to look into the matter.
Who acts: governor · What happens: take, order, look · To what, where: pity, chief secretary
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 (governor), 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 | 2 governor | det |
| 2 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 woman | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ordered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ordered | cc |
| 10 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 secretary | nmod:poss |
| 12 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 secretary | amod |
| 13 | secretary | secretary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ordered | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 look | mark |
| 15 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ordered | advcl |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 matter | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 matter | det |
| 18 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 look | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the governor | pity | on the woman | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pity=Theme on woman=Destination | |||
| 2 | order | past | governor's chief secretary | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secretary=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | into the matter | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into matter=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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