The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 60
‘Close to the Fairy’s house is a well, and whoever drinks from it will blossom again like a rose.
Who acts: whoever, well · What happens: be, drink, blossom · To what, where: well
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 (whoever, well), 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 Close | punct |
| 2 | Close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 well | csubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Fairy | det |
| 5 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 house | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Fairy | case |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Close | obl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 well | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 well | det |
| 10 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 drinks | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 drinks | cc |
| 13 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 drinks | nsubj |
| 14 | drinks | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 well | acl:relcl |
| 15 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 18 blossom | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 blossom | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 blossom | aux |
| 18 | blossom | blossom | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 drinks | ccomp |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 blossom | advmod |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 rose | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 rose | det |
| 22 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 blossom | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 well | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a well | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | drink | present | whoever | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | blossom | future | well | again | like a rose | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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