The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 84
Yonder, as you see, a gallows is set up, and two evil-doers are hanging on it.
Who acts: you, two evil doers · What happens: see, set up, hang · To what, where: gallows, danger · 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, two evil doers), 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 | Yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 5 see | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yonder | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 gallows | det |
| 8 | gallows | gallows | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 set | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 set | aux:pass |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 see | ccomp |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 set | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hanging | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hanging | cc |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 doers | nummod |
| 15 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 doers | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 evil | punct |
| 17 | doers | doer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hanging | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 hanging | aux |
| 19 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 set | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 hanging | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | you | yonder property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | set up | present · passive | a gallows | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | |||||
| 3 | hang | present · progressive | two evil doers | danger | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location |
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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