The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 121
‘He is sitting in council with his nobles,’ answered the casket.
Who acts: Petru, sitting · What happens: sit, answer · To what, where: council, casket · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Petru, sitting), 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 sitting | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sitting | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sitting | aux |
| 4 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 answered | csubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 council | case |
| 6 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sitting | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 nobles | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 nobles | nmod:poss |
| 9 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sitting | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sitting | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 sitting | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 casket | det |
| 14 | casket | casket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present · progressive | Petru | council | with Petru's nobles | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in council=Location | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | sitting | the casket | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent casket=Eventuality |
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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