The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 49
We may be sure that in a very little while the envious neighbour had heard this also, and his bosom was filled with hate.
Who acts: We, envious neighbour, man · What happens: be, hear, fill, bosom · To what, where: this, bosom
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 (We, envious neighbour, 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sure | cop |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 heard | mark |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 that | fixed |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 little | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 little | advmod |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 in | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 heard | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 neighbour | det |
| 12 | envious | envious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 neighbour | amod |
| 13 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heard | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 heard | aux |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 heard | obj |
| 17 | also | also | ADV | _ | 15 heard | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 filled | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 filled | cc |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 21 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 filled | aux:pass |
| 23 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sure | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 hate | case |
| 25 | hate | hate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 filled | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | We | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | past · perfect | the envious neighbour | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fill | past · passive | man's bosom | with hate | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with hate=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | bosom | man | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=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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