The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 29
As soon as he saw his house he began to shout from a distance, ‘Hallo! old woman!
Who acts: man · What happens: see, begin, shout · To what, where: house
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 (man), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 saw | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 house | nmod:poss |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 began | nsubj |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 shout | mark |
| 11 | shout | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | xcomp |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 distance | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 distance | det |
| 14 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shout | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Hallo | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 Hallo | punct |
| 17 | Hallo | Hallo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 distance | nmod |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 Hallo | punct |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 woman | amod |
| 20 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Hallo | list |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | man | man's house | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | begin | past | man | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | shout speech: express | to-infinitive | man not said here | from a distance Hallo | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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