The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 125
‘These flowers are under a curse.
Who acts: flowers · What happens: be · To what, where: curse
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 (flowers), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 curse | punct |
| 2 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 flowers | det |
| 3 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 curse | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 curse | cop |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 curse | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 curse | det |
| 7 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 curse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this flowers | a curse | tree rules |
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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