The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 14
As not uncommonly happens in such cases, she turned the whole house upside down, and the two quarrelled and fought all day long.
Who acts: peasant, two · What happens: not happen, turn, quarrell, fight · To what, where: such cases, whole house upside
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 (peasant, two), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 happens | mark |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 happens | advmod |
| 3 | uncommonly | uncommonly | ADV | _ | 4 happens | advmod |
| 4 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 turned | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 cases | case |
| 6 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cases | amod |
| 7 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 happens | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 happens | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 turned | nsubj |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 upside | det |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 upside | amod |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 upside | compound |
| 14 | upside | upside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | obj |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 turned | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 quarrelled | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 quarrelled | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 two | det |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 quarrelled | nsubj |
| 20 | quarrelled | quarrell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 turned | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fought | cc |
| 22 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 quarrelled | conj |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 day | det |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fought | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 fought | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not happen | present | peasant not said here | such cases | uncommonly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in case=Location | |||
| 2 | turn | past | peasant | the whole house upside | down property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent upside=Theme | |||
| 3 | quarrell | past | the two | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fight | past | the two not said here | day | long property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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