The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 10
However, the fact remained that strange things did happen there, and the King of Sweden, to whom this part of the country belonged, more than once gave orders to cut down the haunted wood, but there was no one with courage enough to obey his commands.
Who acts: fact, strange things, King, one · What happens: remain, happen, belong, give, cut down, haunt · To what, where: more, orders, haunted wood, commands · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fact, strange things, King, one), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 remained | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fact | det |
| 4 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remained | nsubj |
| 5 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 happen | mark |
| 7 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 things | amod |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 happen | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 happen | aux |
| 10 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 remained | advcl |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 happen | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 belonged | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 belonged | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 belonged | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Sweden | case |
| 17 | Sweden | Sweden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 King | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 part | punct |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 whom | case |
| 20 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 part | obl |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 part | det |
| 22 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 King | acl:relcl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 country | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 country | det |
| 25 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 part | nmod |
| 26 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 remained | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 more | punct |
| 28 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 belonged | obj |
| 29 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 31 gave | mark |
| 30 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 31 gave | advmod |
| 31 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 more | advcl |
| 32 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 gave | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 cut | mark |
| 34 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 gave | xcomp |
| 35 | down | down | ADP | _ | 34 cut | compound:prt |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 wood | det |
| 37 | haunted | haunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 wood | amod |
| 38 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 cut | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 was | punct |
| 40 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 was | cc |
| 41 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 42 was | expl |
| 42 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 remained | parataxis |
| 43 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 44 one | det |
| 44 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 was | nsubj |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 courage | case |
| 46 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 one | nmod |
| 47 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 46 courage | advmod |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 obey | mark |
| 49 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 one | acl |
| 50 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 commands | nmod:poss |
| 51 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 obey | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | the fact | however property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | happen | past · do-support | strange things | there | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | belong | past | the King of Sweden | more | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give | past | the King of Sweden not said here | orders | once property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | cut down | to-infinitive | the King of Sweden not said here | the haunted wood | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product | ||||
| 6 | haunt | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 7 | be | past | no one with courage | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | obey | to-infinitive | no one with courage not said here | King's commands | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme | ||||
| 9 | command | King | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=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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