The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 16
Then they leaned it up against the wall, for it was too big to go into a cupboard, and the beardless one said to the boy:
Who acts: hands, cake, beardless one · What happens: learn up, be, go, say · To what, where: cake, cupboard, boy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hands, cake, beardless one), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 leaned | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 leaned | nsubj |
| 3 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 leaned | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 leaned | compound:prt |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 wall | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wall | det |
| 8 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 big | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 big | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 big | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 big | cop |
| 13 | too | too | ADV | _ | 14 big | advmod |
| 14 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 leaned | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 go | mark |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 big | advcl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 cupboard | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cupboard | det |
| 19 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 said | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 one | det |
| 23 | beardless | beardless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 one | amod |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 said | nsubj |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 leaned | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 boy | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 boy | det |
| 28 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 said | obl |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 leaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn up | past | hands = hand | cake | then | against the wall | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||
| 2 | is | past | cake | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | cake not said here | a cupboard | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into cupboard=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the beardless one | the boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to boy=Recipient |
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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