The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 7
‘What can that be?’ asked Petru, when he saw a long, long way off, at the very end of the heath, something resembling a house.
Who acts: that, Petru · What happens: be, ask, see, resemble · To what, where: Petru, end, house · 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 (that, Petru), 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 | _ | 5 be | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 be | obj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 be | aux |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 be | nsubj |
| 5 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 be | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 be | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | iobj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 saw | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 way | det |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 way | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 long | punct |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 way | amod |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 off | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | off | off | ADV | _ | 13 saw | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 end | punct |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 end | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 end | det |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 end | advmod |
| 24 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 heath | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 heath | det |
| 27 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 end | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 something | punct |
| 29 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 27 heath | appos |
| 30 | resembling | resemble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 something | acl |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 house | det |
| 32 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 resembling | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | can | can | that | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Petru | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent petru=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see | past | Petru | at the end of the heath | off property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | resemble | gerund | a house | 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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