The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 29
Perhaps you saw how your comrades walked down stairs, and you are going after them.
Who acts: you, comrades · What happens: see, walk down, go · To what, where: stairs · 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 (you, comrades), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 walked | advmod |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 comrades | nmod:poss |
| 6 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 walked | nsubj |
| 7 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 walked | compound:prt |
| 9 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 walked | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 going | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 going | cc |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 going | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 going | aux |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 saw | conj |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 going | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | you | perhaps property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | walk down | past | your comrades | stairs | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stair=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | go | present · progressive | you | after comrades = comrade | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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