The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 71
And then something came to him--WHAT I cannot tell you.
Who acts: something, I · What happens: come, not tell · To what, where: Petru, you · 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 (something, I), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 came | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | obl |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 8 | WHAT | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 tell | obj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 tell | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 tell | advmod |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 came | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | iobj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | something | Petru | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert | can | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic |
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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