The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 77
At length his memory came back to him, and as he called to mind all the wonderful things he had seen he tried in vain to make them agree with those that happen every day.
Who acts: memory, friend, things · What happens: come back, call, mind, see, try, make · To what, where: friend, length, wonderful things, vain, things · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (memory, friend, things), 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 | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 memory | nmod:poss |
| 4 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 called | cc |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 called | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 called | nsubj |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 mind | mark |
| 15 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 called | xcomp |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 things | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 things | det |
| 18 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 things | amod |
| 19 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 seen | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 seen | aux |
| 22 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 mind | ccomp |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 tried | nsubj |
| 24 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 seen | ccomp |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 vain | case |
| 26 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tried | obl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 make | mark |
| 28 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 tried | advcl |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 make | obj |
| 30 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 make | xcomp |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 those | case |
| 32 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 30 agree | obl |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 happen | nsubj |
| 34 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 those | acl:relcl |
| 35 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 day | det |
| 36 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 happen | obl:unmarked |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | friend's memory | friend | length | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | call | past | friend | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | mind | to-infinitive | friend not said here | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | see | past · perfect · passive | all wonderful things | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | try | past | friend | vain | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | make | to-infinitive | friend not said here | things = thing | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | agree speech: agree | infinitive | things = thing not said here | with those | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with that=Co-Agent | ||||
| 8 | happen | present | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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