The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 109
And even if he did throw you downstairs, well, a warm bath soon cured your bruises, so you must just forgive him and go quietly home.’
Who acts: Hans, warm bath, you, your · What happens: throw, cure, forgive, go, bruise · To what, where: you, bruises, Hans
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, warm bath, you, your), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 throw | cc |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 throw | advmod |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 throw | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 throw | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 throw | aux |
| 6 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 throw | obj |
| 8 | downstairs | downstairs | ADV | _ | 6 throw | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bath | punct |
| 10 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 14 bath | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 well | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bath | det |
| 13 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bath | amod |
| 14 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 throw | obl |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 cured | advmod |
| 16 | cured | cure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 bath | acl |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bruises | nmod:poss |
| 18 | bruises | bruise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cured | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 forgive | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 forgive | advmod |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 forgive | nsubj |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 forgive | aux |
| 23 | just | just | ADV | _ | 24 forgive | advmod |
| 24 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 throw | parataxis |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 forgive | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 go | cc |
| 27 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 forgive | conj |
| 28 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 27 go | advmod |
| 29 | home | home | ADV | _ | 27 go | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 throw | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 throw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past · do-support | Hans | you | a warm bath obl; downstairs property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 2 | cure | participle | a warm bath not said here | your bruises | soon property | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer bruise=Source | |||
| 3 | forgive | must | you | Hans | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | you not said here | home, quietly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bruise | your | nom bruise «state 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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