The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 106
‘Hold, comrades!’ he shouted, turning to the attacking party.
Who acts: Hans · What happens: shout, turn, attack · To what, where: attacking party
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans), 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 | _ | 2 Hold | punct |
| 2 | Hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shouted | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 comrades | punct |
| 4 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Hold | conj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hold | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hold | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 shouted | nsubj |
| 8 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 turning | punct |
| 10 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 shouted | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 party | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 party | det |
| 13 | attacking | attack | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 party | amod |
| 14 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turning | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | past | Hans | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | turn | gerund | Hans not said here | the attacking party | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to party=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | attack | gerund | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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