The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 7
‘He was a very learned doctor,’ answered she.
Who acts: child, learned doctor · What happens: learn, be, answer · To what, where: learned doctor, mother
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 (child, learned doctor), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 doctor | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 doctor | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 doctor | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 doctor | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 learned | advmod |
| 6 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 doctor | amod |
| 7 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 doctor | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 doctor | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 answered | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | child | a learned doctor | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | a learned doctor | mother | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |
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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