The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 52
‘Yes,’ replied Costan, understanding directly what was wanted.
What happens: reply, understand, want · To what, where: Costan
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 replied | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Costan | Costan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 understanding | punct |
| 8 | understanding | understand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 replied | advcl |
| 9 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 10 what | advmod |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 understanding | obj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wanted | aux:pass |
| 12 | wanted | want | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Costan | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent costan=Topic | |||||
| 2 | understand | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | want | past · passive | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF» |
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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