The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 109
‘Leave us alone, and we will go quietly,’ said the princes, and stepped backwards, weeping silently at the harsh words.
Who acts: we · What happens: leave, go, say, step, weep · To what, where: us, princes, harsh words · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 2 | Leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Leave | obj |
| 4 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 2 Leave | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 go | cc |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 go | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | aux |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Leave | conj |
| 10 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 9 go | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 princes | det |
| 15 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stepped | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stepped | cc |
| 18 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 19 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 18 stepped | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 weeping | punct |
| 21 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 stepped | advcl |
| 22 | silently | silently | ADV | _ | 21 weeping | advmod |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 words | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 words | det |
| 25 | harsh | harsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 words | amod |
| 26 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 weeping | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | infinitive | us | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | future | we | quietly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the princes | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | step | past | backwards property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | weep | gerund | the harsh words | silently property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «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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