The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 26
He was tired of the splendours of the town and its pleasures, and was glad enough to be back in the green country, among the peach-blossoms and sweet flowers.
Who acts: Hatschihime, town · What happens: be, please · To what, where: green country
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hatschihime, town), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tired | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tired | cop |
| 3 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 splendours | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 splendours | det |
| 6 | splendours | splendour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tired | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 town | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 town | det |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 splendours | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pleasures | cc |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 pleasures | nmod:poss |
| 12 | pleasures | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 splendours | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 glad | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 glad | cc |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 glad | cop |
| 16 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tired | conj |
| 17 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 16 glad | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 back | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 back | cop |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 glad | advcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 country | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 country | det |
| 23 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 country | amod |
| 24 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 back | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 blossoms | punct |
| 26 | among | among | ADP | _ | 30 blossoms | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 blossoms | det |
| 28 | peach | peach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 blossoms | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 peach | punct |
| 30 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tired | parataxis |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 flowers | cc |
| 32 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 flowers | amod |
| 33 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 blossoms | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Hatschihime | of the splendours of the town and town's pleasures; tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Hatschihime not said here | enough, glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | Hatschihime not said here | the green country | back property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | please | town | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=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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