The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 56
‘It was the Welwa,’ replied the horse, ‘changed into a fog ‘Listen!
Who acts: horse, Welwa · What happens: be, reply, change · To what, where: Welwa, horse, fog
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 (horse, Welwa), 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 | _ | 5 Welwa | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 Welwa | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Welwa | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Welwa | det |
| 5 | Welwa | Welwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Welwa | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Welwa | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 horse | det |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 changed | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 changed | punct |
| 13 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 replied | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 fog | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fog | det |
| 16 | fog | fog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 changed | obl |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 Listen | punct |
| 18 | Listen | Listen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 fog | appos |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | horse | the Welwa | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Welwa | the horse | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent horse=Topic | ||||
| 3 | change | participle | the Welwa not said here | into a fog result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into fog=Result |
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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