The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 39
Then, when he heard that the Daimio, or great lord to whom this part of the country belonged, was expected at the capital, he was to carry the ashes to the high road, through which the procession would have to pass.
Who acts: man, part, procession · What happens: hear, belong, expect, be, have, pass · To what, where: Daimio, capital · 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 (man, part, procession), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 heard | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 heard | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 expected | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Daimio | det |
| 8 | Daimio | Daimio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lord | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 lord | cc |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lord | amod |
| 12 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Daimio | appos |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 whom | case |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 lord | nmod |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 part | det |
| 16 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 belonged | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 country | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 country | det |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 part | nmod |
| 20 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 whom | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Daimio | punct |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 expected | aux:pass |
| 23 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 heard | ccomp |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 capital | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 capital | det |
| 26 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 expected | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 carry | punct |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 carry | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 carry | cop |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 carry | mark |
| 31 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 heard | ccomp |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 ashes | det |
| 33 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 carry | obj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 road | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 road | det |
| 36 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 road | amod |
| 37 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 carry | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 have | punct |
| 39 | through | through | ADP | _ | 40 which | case |
| 40 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 have | obl |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 procession | det |
| 42 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 have | nsubj |
| 43 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 have | aux |
| 44 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 carry | conj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 pass | mark |
| 46 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 have | xcomp |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | man | then | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | belong | past | this part of the country | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | expect | past · passive | the Daimio | the capital | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | man | to the high road; carry property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have | would | the procession | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | pass | to-infinitive | the procession not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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