The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 11
So Hassebu looked, and saw they were eaten by insects, all but one book, which he took away and read.
Who acts: Hassebu, insects · What happens: look, see, eat, take away, read · To what, where: books · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hassebu, insects), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 2 | Hassebu | Hassebu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 saw | cc |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 eaten | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 eaten | aux:pass |
| 9 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 saw | ccomp |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 insects | case |
| 11 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 eaten | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 book | punct |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 book | det |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 book | cc |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 book | nummod |
| 16 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 insects | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 took | nsubj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 took | nsubj |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 insects | acl:relcl |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 took | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 read | cc |
| 23 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 eaten | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Hassebu | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see | past | Hassebu not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | eat | past · passive | insects but all one book | books = book | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | take away | past | insects but all one book | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | read | infinitive | insects but all one book not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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