The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 135
The following Sunday he handed over the third part to the village poor, and informed the minister that he wished to break his bond of service.
Who acts: following Sunday, hole · What happens: follow, hand, inform, wish, break, bond · To what, where: third part, minister, bond, service · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (following Sunday, hole), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sunday | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Sunday | amod |
| 3 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 handed | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 handed | nsubj |
| 5 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 part | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 part | det |
| 8 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 part | amod |
| 9 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 handed | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 village | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 village | det |
| 12 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 handed | obl |
| 13 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 village | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 informed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 informed | cc |
| 16 | informed | inform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 handed | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 minister | det |
| 18 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 informed | obj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 wished | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 wished | nsubj |
| 21 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 informed | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 break | mark |
| 23 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 wished | xcomp |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 bond | nmod:poss |
| 25 | bond | bond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 break | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 service | case |
| 27 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bond | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 handed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | hand | past | the following Sunday | the third part | to the village | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to village=Destination | |||
| 3 | inform speech: other | past | the following Sunday not said here | the minister | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent minister=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | wish | past | hole | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | break not said to happen | to-infinitive | hole not said here | hole's bond of service | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bond=Patient | ||||
| 6 | bond | hole | service | nom bond «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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