The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 61
As I drew near them, carrying the water, the reapers all cried out, “Why, what has become of your head?”
Who acts: I, reapers · What happens: draw, carry, cry out, become · To what, where: water · 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, reapers), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 drew | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 carrying | punct |
| 7 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 drew | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 water | det |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carrying | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cried | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 reapers | det |
| 12 | reapers | reaper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cried | nsubj |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 cried | advmod |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 cried | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 become | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 become | punct |
| 18 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 become | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 become | punct |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 become | nsubj |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 become | aux |
| 22 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 cried | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 head | case |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 head | nmod:poss |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 become | obl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 25 head | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 head | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | I | near reapers = reaper | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | carry | gerund | I not said here | the water | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | past | the reapers | all property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | become in a quote | present · perfect | of your head | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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