The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 87
I will keep the best,’ he said to himself; and taking off first the copper crown and then the silver, he threw them away.
Who acts: I, Petru · What happens: keep, say, take off, throw away · To what, where: best, Petru, copper crown, women · 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 (I, Petru), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 keep | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 keep | aux |
| 3 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 best | det |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 keep | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 keep | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 himself | case |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 said | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 taking | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 taking | cc |
| 14 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 keep | advcl |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 taking | compound:prt |
| 16 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 taking | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 crown | det |
| 18 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 crown | compound |
| 19 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taking | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 silver | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 silver | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 silver | det |
| 23 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 crown | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 threw | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 threw | nsubj |
| 26 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 keep | parataxis |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 threw | obj |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 threw | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | future | I | the best | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Petru | Petru | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | take off | gerund | I not said here | the copper crown and the silver | first property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme | |||
| 4 | throw away | past | Petru | women = woman | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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