The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 82
The secretary called the elders of the village together, and went with them to the man’s house.
Who acts: secretary · What happens: call, go · To what, where: elders, house · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (secretary), 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 secretary | det |
| 2 | secretary | secretary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 secretary | acl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 elders | det |
| 5 | elders | elder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 called | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 village | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 village | det |
| 8 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 elders | nmod |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 village | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 house | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 man | case |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the secretary not said here | the elders of the village | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent elder=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the secretary | the man's house | with elders = elder | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location |
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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