The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 23
Every morning when I got up I counted them over, and it was quite easy to number the bees, but I never could reckon the hives properly.
Who acts: I · What happens: get up, count over, be, not reckon · To what, where: beehives, hives
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 (I), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 morning | det |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 counted | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 got | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 counted | advcl |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 got | compound:prt |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 counted | nsubj |
| 8 | counted | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 counted | obj |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 counted | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 easy | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 easy | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 easy | expl |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 easy | cop |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 easy | advmod |
| 16 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 counted | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 number | mark |
| 18 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 easy | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bees | det |
| 20 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 easy | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 reckon | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 reckon | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 reckon | nsubj |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 26 reckon | advmod |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 reckon | aux |
| 26 | reckon | reckon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 counted | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 hives | det |
| 28 | hives | hive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 reckon | obj |
| 29 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 26 reckon | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 counted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | count over | past | I | beehives = beehive | morning | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | I not said here | the bees obl:unmarked; easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not reckon | could | I | the hives | properly property | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent hive=Attribute |
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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