The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 99
My bones still ache from my fall down the steps of the tower.
Who acts: bones · What happens: ache, step · To what, where: tower
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 (bones), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 bones | nmod:poss |
| 2 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ache | nsubj |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 ache | advmod |
| 4 | ache | ache | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 fall | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 fall | nmod:poss |
| 7 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ache | obl |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 steps | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 steps | det |
| 10 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fall | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 tower | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tower | det |
| 13 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 steps | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ache | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ache | present | My bones | still | from my fall down the steps of the tower | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Patient from fall=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | step | the tower | nom step «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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