The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 122

‘We are twins, two shoots from one stem, which has been broken, and half lies in the ground and half sits at the head of this table.

Who acts: We, half · What happens: be, break, lie, sit · To what, where: twins, two shoots, ground, head

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, half), 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	_	4 twins	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 twins	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 twins	cop
4	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 shoots	punct
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 shoots	nummod
7	shoots	shoot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 twins	conj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 stem	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 stem	nummod
10	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shoots	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 broken	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 broken	nsubj:pass
13	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 broken	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 broken	aux:pass
15	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 shoots	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lies	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 lies	cc
18	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	19 lies	nsubj
19	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 broken	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 ground	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ground	det
22	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lies	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sits	cc
24	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	25 sits	nsubj
25	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 ground	acl:relcl
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 head	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 head	det
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sits	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 table	case
30	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 table	det
31	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 head	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 twins	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	We	twins and two shoots from one stem		tree rules
2	break	present · perfect · passive		two shoots from one stem		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	lie	present	half		the ground	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in ground=Location
4	sit	present	half	the ground not said here	the head of this table	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent ground=Theme at head=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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