The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 112
‘You have borne yourself bravely,’ went on the goddess, tapping him on the shoulder.
Who acts: You · What happens: bear, go, tap · To what, where: yourself, Petru
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 borne | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 borne | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 borne | aux |
| 4 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 borne | obj |
| 6 | bravely | bravely | ADV | _ | 4 borne | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 borne | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 goddess | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 goddess | det |
| 12 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tapping | punct |
| 14 | tapping | tap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 went | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tapping | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 shoulder | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 shoulder | det |
| 18 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tapping | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 borne | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | present · perfect | You | yourself | bravely property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient | |||
| 2 | go | past | You not said here | on the goddess | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on goddess=Location | ||||
| 3 | tap | gerund | You not said here | Petru | on the shoulder | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument on shoulder=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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