The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 16
And for six days they went and did the like, but on the seventh it rained, and the wood-cutters ran and hid in the rocks, all but Hassebu, who did not mind wetting, and stayed where he was.
Who acts: donkeys, it, wood cutters, Hassebu · What happens: go, do, rain, run, hide, not mind · To what, where: seventh, rocks
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 (donkeys, it, wood cutters, Hassebu), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 went | cc |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 3 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 days | nummod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 went | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 did | cc |
| 8 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 like | det |
| 10 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 8 did | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rained | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 rained | cc |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 seventh | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 seventh | det |
| 15 | seventh | seventh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rained | obl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 rained | nsubj |
| 17 | rained | rain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ran | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ran | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cutters | det |
| 21 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cutters | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 wood | punct |
| 23 | cutters | cutter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 ran | nsubj |
| 24 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 hid | cc |
| 26 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 rocks | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 rocks | det |
| 29 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 hid | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 all | punct |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 rocks | conj |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 mind | cc |
| 33 | Hassebu | Hassebu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 mind | nsubj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 mind | punct |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 mind | nsubj |
| 36 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 mind | aux |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 mind | advmod |
| 38 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 all | conj |
| 39 | wetting | wet | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 mind | xcomp |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 stayed | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 stayed | cc |
| 42 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 43 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 45 was | advmod |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 was | nsubj |
| 45 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 stayed | advcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | donkeys = donkey | day | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | past | donkeys = donkey not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | rain | past | it | the seventh | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | ||||
| 4 | run | past | the wood cutters | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | hide | past | donkeys = donkey not said here | the rocks | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in rock=Location | ||||
| 6 | not mind | past · do-support | Hassebu | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | wet | gerund | Hassebu not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 8 | stay | past | donkeys = donkey not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | be | past | Hassebu | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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