The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 1
On a bitter night somewhere between Christmas and the New Year, a man set out to walk to the neighbouring village.
What happens: set out, walk, neighbour · To what, where: man
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 night | det |
| 3 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 night | amod |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 night | advmod |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 Christmas | case |
| 7 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 night | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Year | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Year | det |
| 10 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Year | compound |
| 11 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Christmas | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 man | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Christmas | appos |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 man | acl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 set | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 walk | mark |
| 18 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 set | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 village | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 village | det |
| 21 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 village | amod |
| 22 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 walk | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 night | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | participle | a man not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | walk | to-infinitive | to the neighbouring village result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to village=Result | |||||
| 3 | neighbour | gerund | 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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