The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 138
What he beheld there need not be told, for all the world knows that the palace of the Fairy of the Dawn is no ordinary place.
Who acts: Petru, palace · What happens: behold, not tell, know, be · To what, where: ordinary place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Petru, palace), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 beheld | obj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 beheld | nsubj |
| 3 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 told | advcl |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 beheld | advmod |
| 5 | need | need | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 told | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 told | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 told | aux:pass |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 knows | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 world | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 world | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 world | det |
| 13 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 knows | obl |
| 14 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 told | ccomp |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 place | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 palace | det |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 place | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Fairy | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Fairy | det |
| 20 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 palace | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Dawn | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Dawn | det |
| 23 | Dawn | Dawn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Fairy | nmod |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 place | cop |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 27 place | det |
| 26 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 place | amod |
| 27 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 knows | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | past | Petru | there | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert | present · passive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | know | present | for all world | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | the palace of the Fairy of the Dawn | no ordinary place | tree rules |
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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