The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 27
The young emperor sprang up in wrath the moment he heard the news, and vowed that nothing, not even his wife, should hinder his giving them battle.
Who acts: young emperor, emperor, nothing · What happens: spring up, hear, vow, hinder, give, battle · To what, where: wrath, news, wife
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 (young emperor, emperor, nothing), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 emperor | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 emperor | amod |
| 3 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sprang | nsubj |
| 4 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 sprang | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 wrath | case |
| 7 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sprang | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 moment | det |
| 9 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sprang | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 moment | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 news | det |
| 13 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 vowed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 vowed | cc |
| 16 | vowed | vow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sprang | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 hinder | mark |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 26 hinder | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 wife | punct |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 wife | advmod |
| 21 | even | even | ADV | _ | 23 wife | advmod |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 wife | nmod:poss |
| 23 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 nothing | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 nothing | punct |
| 25 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 hinder | aux |
| 26 | hinder | hinder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 vowed | ccomp |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 giving | nsubj |
| 28 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 hinder | advcl |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 giving | iobj |
| 30 | battle | battle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 giving | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring up | past | the young emperor | wrath | moment | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wrath=Location | |||
| 2 | hear | past | emperor | the news | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | vow | past | the young emperor not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hinder | should | nothing | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 5 | give | gerund | emperor | wife | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | battle | infinitive | emperor not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «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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