The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 65
With these words the boy rose, took the cake, and went home, while the beardless one remained behind to swallow his disappointment.
Who acts: boy, beardless one · What happens: rise, take, go, remain, swallow, disappoint · To what, where: cake, disappointment
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 (boy, 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rose | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | nsubj |
| 6 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rose | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cake | det |
| 10 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rose | conj |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 remained | punct |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 remained | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 one | det |
| 18 | beardless | beardless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 one | amod |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 remained | nsubj |
| 20 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 went | conj |
| 21 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 20 remained | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 swallow | mark |
| 23 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 remained | advcl |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 disappointment | nmod:poss |
| 25 | disappointment | disappointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 swallow | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the boy | with this words | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the boy not said here | the cake | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the boy not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | remain | participle | the beardless one | behind property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | swallow | to-infinitive | the beardless one not said here | boy's disappointment | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disappointment=Patient | ||||
| 6 | disappoint | boy | nom disappointment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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