The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 105
And they are as proud as they are strong, for they will not take their caps from their heads.’
Who acts: boys · What happens: be, not take · To what, where: caps, heads
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 proud | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 proud | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 proud | cop |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 proud | advmod |
| 5 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 strong | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 strong | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 strong | cop |
| 9 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 proud | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 take | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 take | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 take | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 take | advmod |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 proud | conj |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 caps | nmod:poss |
| 17 | caps | cap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 take | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 heads | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 heads | nmod:poss |
| 20 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 take | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 proud | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 proud | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | boys = boy | proud property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | boys = boy | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not take | future | boys = boy | boys's caps | boys's heads | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent cap=Theme from head=Initial_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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