The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 100
‘Two boys who want to force their way in,’ replied one of the servants, approaching the emperor.
Who acts: Two boys · What happens: want, force, reply, approach · To what, where: way, one, emperor
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two boys), 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 | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 2 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 boys | nummod |
| 3 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 want | nsubj |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 boys | acl:relcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 force | mark |
| 7 | force | force | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 want | xcomp |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 way | nmod:poss |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 force | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 force | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 replied | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 servants | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 servants | det |
| 17 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 one | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 approaching | punct |
| 19 | approaching | approach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 replied | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 emperor | det |
| 21 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 approaching | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Two boys | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | force not said to happen | to-infinitive | Two boys not said here | boys's way | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Two boys | one of the servants | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic | ||||
| 4 | approach | gerund | Two boys not said here | the emperor | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emperor=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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