The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 126
Whoever plucks them must fight the Welwa(1) of the woods.’
Who acts: Whoever, flowers · What happens: pluck, fight · To what, where: Welwa
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 (Whoever, 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 | Whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 plucks | nsubj |
| 2 | plucks | pluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fight | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fight | aux |
| 5 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 plucks | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Welwa | det |
| 7 | Welwa | Welwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fight | obj |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 1 | punct |
| 9 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 Welwa | appos |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 1 | punct |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 woods | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 woods | det |
| 13 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 1 | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 plucks | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 plucks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pluck | present | Whoever | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fight | must | flowers = flower | the Welwa | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent welwa=Co-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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