The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 22
And his heart was filled with rage against the dog who had played him this trick, and he seized a pickaxe and killed it on the spot, before he knew what he was doing.
Who acts: dog, man · What happens: fill, play, seize, kill, know, do · To what, where: heart, trick, man, pickaxe, spot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 filled | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 heart | nmod:poss |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 filled | aux:pass |
| 5 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 rage | case |
| 7 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filled | obl |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 10 dog | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dog | det |
| 10 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rage | nmod |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 played | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 played | aux |
| 13 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 dog | acl:relcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 played | obj |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 trick | det |
| 16 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 played | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 seized | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 seized | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 seized | nsubj |
| 20 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 filled | parataxis |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pickaxe | det |
| 22 | pickaxe | pickaxe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seized | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 killed | cc |
| 24 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 seized | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 killed | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 spot | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 spot | det |
| 28 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 killed | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 knew | punct |
| 30 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 32 knew | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 knew | nsubj |
| 32 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 seized | conj |
| 33 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 36 doing | obj |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 doing | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 doing | aux |
| 36 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 knew | ccomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · passive | man's heart | with rage against the dog | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with rage=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | play | past · perfect | the dog | this trick | man | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary trick=Theme | |||
| 3 | seize | past | man | a pickaxe | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pickaxe=Theme | ||||
| 4 | kill | past | man not said here | pickaxe | the spot | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 5 | know | past | man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | do | past · progressive | man | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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