The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 12
He spoke very little, but laughed and sang, sang and laughed, from morning till night.
Who acts: Petru · What happens: speak, laugh, sing · To what, where: little · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Petru), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spoke | nsubj |
| 2 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 little | advmod |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 spoke | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 laughed | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 laughed | cc |
| 7 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spoke | parataxis |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sang | cc |
| 9 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 laughed | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sang | punct |
| 11 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sang | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 laughed | cc |
| 13 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 laughed | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 morning | punct |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 morning | case |
| 16 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 laughed | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | till | till | ADP | _ | 18 night | case |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 laughed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Petru | little | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | laugh | past | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | past | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | laugh | past | morning; night | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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