The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 114
After everybody had had enough, the old man struck the rock again.
Who acts: everybody, old man · What happens: have, strike · To what, where: rock
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 (everybody, old man), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 had | mark |
| 2 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | aux |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 struck | advcl |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 4 had | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 struck | nsubj |
| 10 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rock | det |
| 12 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 struck | obj |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 struck | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past · perfect | everybody | enough property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | strike | past | the old man | the rock | again | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Patient |
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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