The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 102
Her husband only strolled up and down and laughed, as he said: ‘Yes, they’ll beat you well, old lady.’
Who acts: husband, ruffians · What happens: stroll up, laugh, say, beat · To what, where: husband, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (husband, 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 husband | nmod:poss |
| 2 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 strolled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 strolled | advmod |
| 4 | strolled | stroll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 strolled | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 down | cc |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 up | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 laughed | cc |
| 9 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 strolled | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 said | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 laughed | conj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 beat | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 beat | punct |
| 16 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 20 beat | discourse |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Yes | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 beat | nsubj |
| 19 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 beat | aux |
| 20 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 beat | obj |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 beat | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lady | punct |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 lady | amod |
| 25 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 beat | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 strolled | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 strolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stroll up | participle · passive | Meantime's husband | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | laugh | past | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | husband | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | beat | future | ruffians = ruffian | you | old lady obl; well property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=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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