The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 40
Hans rang the bells for some time, then went to the hay-loft, and fell fast asleep.
Who acts: Hans · What happens: ring, go, fall · To what, where: bells, hay loft
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 | Hans | han | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rang | nsubj |
| 2 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bells | det |
| 4 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rang | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rang | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 went | advmod |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rang | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 loft | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 loft | det |
| 13 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 loft | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 hay | punct |
| 15 | loft | loft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fell | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fell | cc |
| 18 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rang | conj |
| 19 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 fell | advmod |
| 20 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fell | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring | past | Hans | the bells | time | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | Hans not said here | the hay loft | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to loft=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | fall | past | Hans not said here | asleep, fast property | vn occur-48.3 «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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