The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 4
One or two men of valour had the courage to go and ask him the reason of this strange fact, but he only laughed and said nothing; and the reason of the deadly enmity between his two eyes was a secret only known to the monarch himself.
Who acts: One men, emperor, reason · What happens: have, go, ask, laugh, say, be · To what, where: courage, reason, emperor, nothing, secret · 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 (One men, emperor, reason), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 men | nummod |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 two | cc |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 One | conj |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 had | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 valour | case |
| 6 | valour | valour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obl |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 courage | det |
| 9 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 courage | acl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ask | cc |
| 13 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ask | obj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 reason | det |
| 16 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ask | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 fact | case |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 fact | nsubj |
| 19 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fact | amod |
| 20 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reason | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 laughed | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 laughed | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 laughed | nsubj |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 laughed | advmod |
| 25 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 said | cc |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 laughed | conj |
| 28 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 27 said | obj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 secret | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 secret | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 reason | det |
| 32 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 secret | nsubj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 enmity | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 enmity | det |
| 35 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 enmity | amod |
| 36 | enmity | enmity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 reason | nmod |
| 37 | between | between | ADP | _ | 40 eyes | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 39 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 eyes | nummod |
| 40 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 enmity | nmod |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 secret | cop |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 secret | det |
| 43 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obl |
| 44 | only | only | ADV | _ | 45 known | advmod |
| 45 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 secret | acl |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 monarch | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 monarch | det |
| 48 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 known | obl |
| 49 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 48 monarch | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | One men | the courage | of valour | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Patient | |||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | One men not said here | the courage not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | One men not said here | the reason of strange fact | emperor | tree rules | |||
| 4 | laugh | past | emperor | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | emperor not said here | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | the reason of the deadly enmity between emperor's two eyes | a secret | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | know | participle | a secret not said here | to the monarch emperor | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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