The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 48
If I stood it touched the ground, although if I was sitting it only reached my ears.
Who acts: I, hair · What happens: stand, touch, sit, reach · To what, where: ground, hair, ears
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, hair), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 stood | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 touched | nsubj |
| 5 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 touched | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 reached | punct |
| 9 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 16 reached | mark |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 sitting | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 sitting | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sitting | aux |
| 13 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 reached | advcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sitting | obj |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 reached | advmod |
| 16 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 ears | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 reached | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | touch | past | hair | the ground | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit a condition, not said to happen | past · progressive | I | hair | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | reach | past | I not said here | my ears | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=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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