The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 57
On the way I noticed that the ripe fields were full of reapers, and suddenly the air became so frightfully hot that the men dropped down in a faint.
Who acts: I, ripe fields, air, men · What happens: notice, be, become, drop down · To what, where: way, faint · 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 (I, ripe fields, air, men), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 noticed | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 noticed | nsubj |
| 5 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 full | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fields | det |
| 8 | ripe | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fields | amod |
| 9 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 full | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 full | cop |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 noticed | ccomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 reapers | case |
| 13 | reapers | reaper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 full | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 became | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 became | cc |
| 16 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 19 became | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 air | det |
| 18 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 became | nsubj |
| 19 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 noticed | conj |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 hot | advmod |
| 21 | frightfully | frightfully | ADV | _ | 22 hot | advmod |
| 22 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 became | xcomp |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 dropped | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 men | det |
| 25 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 dropped | nsubj |
| 26 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 hot | advcl |
| 27 | down | down | ADP | _ | 26 dropped | compound:prt |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 faint | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 faint | det |
| 30 | faint | faint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dropped | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | I | the way | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the ripe fields | of reapers; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | become | past | the air | hot, suddenly property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | drop down | past | the men | a faint | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in faint=Trajectory |
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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