The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 56
Then she went on to tell Petru that she was the daughter of an emperor, and their nearest neighbour was the Fairy of the Dawn, with whom she had a violent quarrel, and with that she broke out into loud abuse of her.
Who acts: many, nearest neighbour · What happens: go on, tell, be, have, break out, abuse · To what, where: Petru, daughter, Fairy, violent quarrel, loud abuse · 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 (many, nearest neighbour), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 tell | mark |
| 6 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | xcomp |
| 7 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 tell | obj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 daughter | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 daughter | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 daughter | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 daughter | det |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tell | ccomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 emperor | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 emperor | det |
| 15 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 daughter | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Fairy | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Fairy | cc |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 19 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 neighbour | amod |
| 20 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Fairy | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 Fairy | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Fairy | det |
| 23 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Dawn | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Dawn | det |
| 26 | Dawn | Dawn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Fairy | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 whom | punct |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 whom | case |
| 29 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 went | obl |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 had | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 whom | acl:relcl |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 quarrel | det |
| 33 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 quarrel | amod |
| 34 | quarrel | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 had | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 broke | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 broke | cc |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 that | case |
| 38 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 broke | obl |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 broke | nsubj |
| 40 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 41 | out | out | ADP | _ | 40 broke | compound:prt |
| 42 | into | into | ADP | _ | 44 abuse | case |
| 43 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 abuse | amod |
| 44 | abuse | abuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 broke | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 her | case |
| 46 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 abuse | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | many | then | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | many not said here | Petru | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent petru=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | many | the daughter | of a emperor | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a | past | daughters's nearest neighbour | the Fairy | of the Dawn | tree rules | |||
| 5 | have | past | many | a violent quarrel | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarrel=Patient | ||||
| 6 | break out | past | many | into loud abuse of Fairy result; with that | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with that=Instrument into abuse=Result | ||||
| 7 | abuse | Fairy | nom abuse «act 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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