The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 31
‘Petru, my dear boy,’ cried the emperor, both his eyes laughing together, ‘I see you have got this on the brain.
Who acts: Petru, eyes, I, you · What happens: cry, laugh, see, get · To what, where: emperor, this, brain · 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, eyes, I, you), 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 | _ | 2 Petru | punct |
| 2 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 boy | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 boy | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 boy | amod |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Petru | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 boy | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 boy | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 emperor | det |
| 11 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 eyes | punct |
| 13 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 15 eyes | cc:preconj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cried | obl |
| 16 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 eyes | acl |
| 17 | together | together | ADV | _ | 16 laughing | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 see | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 see | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 see | nsubj |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | conj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 got | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 got | aux |
| 24 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 see | ccomp |
| 25 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 got | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 brain | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 brain | det |
| 28 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 got | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Petru | the emperor | Petru's eyes obl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emperor=Topic | |||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | Petru's eyes not said here | together property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | see | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | get | present · perfect | you | this | the brain | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent this=Theme on brain=Source |
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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