The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 23
Like the others, she heard the boy’s cry, but could not make up her mind to leave the strawberries.
Who acts: lightning, boy · What happens: hear, not make up, leave, cry, mind · To what, where: cry, mind, strawberries
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 (lightning, boy), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 others | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 others | det |
| 3 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 heard | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 others | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 boy | det |
| 8 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cry | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 boy | case |
| 10 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 make | cc |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 make | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 make | advmod |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 heard | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 make | compound:prt |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mind | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 leave | mark |
| 20 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 make | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 strawberries | det |
| 22 | strawberries | strawberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 leave | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | lightning | the boy's cry | like the others | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | not make up | could | lightning not said here | lightning's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | leave | to-infinitive | lightning not said here | the strawberries | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strawberry=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cry | the boy | nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | mind | lightning | nom mind «cognition 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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