The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 87
‘Those gallows birds hang high in the air, and my camp will be on the ground; we shall have nothing to do with each other.’
Who acts: gallows birds, camp, we · What happens: hang, be, have, do · To what, where: ground, nothing
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 (gallows birds, camp, we), 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 | _ | 5 hang | punct |
| 2 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 birds | det |
| 3 | gallows | gallows | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 birds | compound |
| 4 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hang | nsubj |
| 5 | hang | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hang | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 air | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 air | det |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 high | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ground | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ground | cc |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 camp | nmod:poss |
| 13 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ground | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 ground | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 ground | cop |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 ground | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ground | det |
| 18 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hang | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 have | aux |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hang | conj |
| 23 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 have | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 do | mark |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 nothing | acl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 each | case |
| 27 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 25 do | obl |
| 28 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 each | fixed |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hang | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 hang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | present | that gallows birds | high property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | future | my camp | the ground | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | shall | we | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | we not said here | nothing not said here | with each | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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