The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 37
Then suddenly the thought darted into his head, ‘This scorpion must have come from somewhere!
Who acts: thought, scorpion · What happens: dart, come · To what, where: head
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 (thought, scorpion), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 darted | advmod |
| 2 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 darted | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thought | det |
| 4 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 darted | nsubj |
| 5 | darted | dart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 darted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 11 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 scorpion | det |
| 12 | scorpion | scorpion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | aux |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 come | aux |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 darted | conj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 somewhere | case |
| 17 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 come | obl |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 darted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dart | past | the thought | Hassebu's head | then | suddenly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into head=Destination | ||
| 2 | come | must · perfect | this scorpion | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from somewhere=Initial_Location |
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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