The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 16
He had learnt by experience that this question always put the emperor in a rage.
Who acts: Florea, question · What happens: learn, put · To what, where: emperor, rage
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 (Florea, question), 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 | 3 learnt | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 learnt | aux |
| 3 | learnt | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 experience | case |
| 5 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 learnt | obl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 put | mark |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 question | det |
| 8 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | nsubj |
| 9 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 put | advmod |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 learnt | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 emperor | det |
| 12 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 rage | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 rage | det |
| 15 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 learnt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past · perfect | Florea | by experience | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | this question | the emperor | a rage | always property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent emperor=Theme in rage=Destination |
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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