The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 82
‘My good Hans,’ entreated the minister, ‘I really ought not to leave you here.
Who acts: good Hans · What happens: entreat, not leave · To what, where: minister, you
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 (good 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 entreated | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 Hans | nmod:poss |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Hans | amod |
| 4 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 entreated | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Hans | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Hans | punct |
| 7 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 minister | det |
| 9 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entreated | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 leave | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 leave | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 ought | nsubj |
| 13 | really | really | ADV | _ | 14 ought | advmod |
| 14 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 leave | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 leave | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 leave | mark |
| 17 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 entreated | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 leave | obj |
| 19 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 leave | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 entreated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entreat | past | My good Hans | the minister | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minister=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not leave | ought | My good Hans not said here | you | here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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