The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 8
Near him stood a long thin man, holding in his hand a young fir tree taller than himself.
What happens: stand, hold · To what, where: long thin man, young fir tree, hand
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 | Near | near | ADP | _ | 2 him | case |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | obl |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 6 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 holding | punct |
| 9 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stood | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 hand | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 holding | obl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tree | det |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tree | amod |
| 15 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tree | compound |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 holding | obj |
| 17 | taller | tall | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 tree | amod |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 himself | case |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 taller | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a long thin man | near sleeper | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme near he=Destination | ||||
| 2 | hold | gerund | a young fir tree | sleeper's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tree=Theme in hand=Location |
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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