The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 99
(2) In German ‘Mittwoch,’ the feminine form of Mercury.
What happens: form · To what, where: Mercury
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: 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 | _ | 2 2 | punct |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 German | discourse |
| 3 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 2 | punct |
| 4 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 German | case |
| 5 | German | German | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 Mittwoch | punct |
| 7 | Mittwoch | Mittwoch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 German | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 form | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 12 form | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 form | det |
| 11 | feminine | feminine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 form | amod |
| 12 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 German | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Mercury | case |
| 14 | Mercury | Mercury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 form | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 German | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | Mercury | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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