The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 101
Here are two ruffians pommelling me fit to break my bones.’
Who acts: two ruffians · What happens: be, pommell, fit, break · To what, where: me, bones
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two ruffians), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 ruffians | nummod |
| 4 | ruffians | ruffian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 5 | pommelling | pommell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 ruffians | acl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 pommelling | obj |
| 7 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pommelling | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 break | mark |
| 9 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fit | xcomp |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bones | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 break | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ruffians | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | two ruffians | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pommell | gerund | two ruffians not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fit | infinitive | two ruffians not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | break | to-infinitive | two ruffians not said here | my bones | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=Patient |
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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