The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 4
(4) ‘Vineri’ is Friday, and also ‘Venus.’
Who acts: 4 · What happens: be · To what, where: Friday
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 (4), 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 4 | punct |
| 2 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 Friday | nsubj |
| 3 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 4 | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Vineri | punct |
| 5 | Vineri | Vineri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Friday | nsubj |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Vineri | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Friday | cop |
| 8 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Venus | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Venus | cc |
| 11 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 Venus | advmod |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 Venus | punct |
| 13 | Venus | Venus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Friday | appos |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 Venus | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 Venus | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | 4 | Friday | 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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