The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 14
‘You are grown up, Florea,’ said Petru one day to his eldest brother; ‘do go and ask father why one eye laughs and the other weeps.’
Who acts: Petru, one eye · What happens: grow up, say, go, ask, laugh · To what, where: You, father · 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, one eye), 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 | _ | 4 grown | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 grown | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 grown | aux:pass |
| 4 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 grown | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Florea | punct |
| 7 | Florea | Florea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 grown | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 grown | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 grown | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 day | nummod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 brother | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 brother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 brother | amod |
| 17 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 day | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 20 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 21 go | aux |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ask | cc |
| 23 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 go | conj |
| 24 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ask | obj |
| 25 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 laughs | advmod |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 eye | nummod |
| 27 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 laughs | nsubj |
| 28 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 ask | ccomp |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 weeps | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 weeps | det |
| 31 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 weeps | amod |
| 32 | weeps | weep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 laughs | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 34 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | present · passive | You | Florea obl | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Petru | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive · do-support | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | father | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | laugh | present | one eye | 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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