The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 41
Now it was the custom of the minister to get up very early, and to go round to make sure that the men were all at their work.
Who acts: loft, men · What happens: be, get up, go round, make · To what, where: custom, work
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 (loft, men), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 get | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 custom | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 custom | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 custom | det |
| 5 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Now | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 minister | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 minister | det |
| 8 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 custom | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 get | compound:prt |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 early | advmod |
| 13 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 get | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 go | cc |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 go | mark |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 get | conj |
| 18 | round | round | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 make | mark |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 go | advcl |
| 21 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 make | xcomp |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 work | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 men | det |
| 24 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 work | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 work | cop |
| 26 | all | all | ADV | _ | 29 work | advmod |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 work | case |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 work | nmod:poss |
| 29 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sure | ccomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | loft | the custom | of the minister | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get up | to-infinitive | now | early property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | go round | to-infinitive | round property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | sure property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 5 | is | past | the men | men's work | all property | tree rules |
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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