The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 11
‘Listen, sisters!’ said Anna, as they passed on.
Who acts: Anna, sisters · What happens: listen, say, pass on · To what, where: sisters · 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 (Anna, sisters), 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 Listen | punct |
| 2 | Listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sisters | punct |
| 4 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Listen | obl |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Anna | Anna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 passed | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 passed | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 passed | nsubj |
| 12 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 passed | compound:prt |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | infinitive | sisters | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Anna | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | pass on | past | sisters = sister | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: 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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