The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 36
One morning, while he was sitting on a rock having his breakfast, a large scorpion dropped down at his feet, and he took a stone and killed it, fearing it would sting him.
Who acts: Hassebu, rock, stone · What happens: sit, have, drop down, take, kill, fear · To what, where: One morning, rock, breakfast, large scorpion, feet, stone · 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, rock, stone), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 morning | nummod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 took | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sitting | punct |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 sitting | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sitting | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sitting | aux |
| 7 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 morning | acl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 rock | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 rock | det |
| 10 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sitting | obl |
| 11 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 rock | acl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 breakfast | nmod:poss |
| 13 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 having | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 scorpion | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 scorpion | det |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 scorpion | amod |
| 17 | scorpion | scorpion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rock | conj |
| 18 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 scorpion | acl |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 dropped | compound:prt |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 feet | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 feet | nmod:poss |
| 22 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 dropped | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 took | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 took | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 took | nsubj |
| 26 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 stone | det |
| 28 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 took | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 killed | cc |
| 30 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 took | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 killed | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 fearing | punct |
| 33 | fearing | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 killed | advcl |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 sting | nsubj |
| 35 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 sting | aux |
| 36 | sting | sting | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 fearing | ccomp |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 sting | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | Hassebu | One morning not said here | a rock and a large scorpion | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent morning=Theme on rock=Location | |||
| 2 | have | gerund | a rock and a large scorpion not said here | Hassebu's breakfast | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient | ||||
| 3 | drop down | participle | a large scorpion not said here | Hassebu's feet | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at foot=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | take | past | Hassebu | a stone | morning | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | |||
| 5 | kill | past | Hassebu not said here | stone | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | fear | gerund | Hassebu not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | sting | would | stone | Hassebu | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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