The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 12
At the end of several weeks the stream of suitors began to fall off, and still there was no prospect of a suitable son-in-law.
Who acts: stream · What happens: begin, fall off, be · To what, where: end, prospect
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stream), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 began | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 weeks | case |
| 5 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 weeks | amod |
| 6 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 end | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stream | det |
| 8 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 began | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 suitors | case |
| 10 | suitors | suitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stream | nmod |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 fall | mark |
| 13 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 fall | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 prospect | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 prospect | cc |
| 17 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 was | advmod |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 was | expl |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 prospect | cop |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 prospect | det |
| 21 | prospect | prospect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 began | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 son | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 son | det |
| 24 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 son | amod |
| 25 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 prospect | nmod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 law | punct |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 law | case |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 in | punct |
| 29 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 son | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the stream of suitors | at the end of several weeks | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | fall off | to-infinitive | the stream of suitors not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | no prospect | of a suitable son in law | 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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