The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 42
This morning everyone was in his place except Hans, and no one knew anything about him.
Who acts: everyone, one · What happens: be, know · To what, where: place, anything
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 (everyone, one), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 everyone | det |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 everyone | compound |
| 3 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 place | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 place | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 place | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 place | nmod:poss |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | except | except | ADP | _ | 9 Hans | case |
| 9 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 place | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 knew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 knew | cc |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 knew | nsubj |
| 14 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 place | conj |
| 15 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 knew | obj |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 anything | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | everyone | minister's place | except Hans | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | past | no one | anything | about minister | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
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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