The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 65
Elsa could not understand any of the men’s songs, but one word, she noticed, came over and over again, and that was ‘Kisika.’
Who acts: Elsa, that, men · What happens: not understand, notice, come, be, sing · To what, where: any, one word, Kisika
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 (Elsa, that, men), 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 | Elsa | Elsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 understand | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 understand | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 understand | advmod |
| 4 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 understand | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 songs | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 men | det |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 songs | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 men | case |
| 10 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 any | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 word | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 word | cc |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 word | nummod |
| 14 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 understand | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 noticed | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 noticed | nsubj |
| 17 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 word | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 noticed | conj |
| 20 | over | over | ADV | _ | 19 came | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 again | cc |
| 22 | over | over | ADV | _ | 23 again | advmod |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 over | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Kisika | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Kisika | cc |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 Kisika | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 Kisika | cop |
| 28 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 Kisika | punct |
| 29 | Kisika | Kisika | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 word | appos |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 Kisika | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 Kisika | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not understand | could | Elsa | any | one word obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer any=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | notice | past | Elsa | one word not said here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Elsa not said here | over property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | that | Kisika | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sing | the men | nom song «communication intransitive»: 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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