The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 4
Stana, the second, was so beautiful that when she was driving the flock the wolves protected the sheep.
Who acts: Stana · What happens: be, drive, protect · To what, where: flock, sheep
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 (Stana), 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 | Stana | Stana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 beautiful | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 second | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 second | det |
| 4 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 1 Stana | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stana | punct |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 beautiful | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 beautiful | advmod |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 protected | mark |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 driving | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 driving | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 driving | aux |
| 13 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 protected | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 flock | det |
| 15 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 driving | obj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wolves | det |
| 17 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 driving | obj |
| 18 | protected | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 beautiful | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sheep | det |
| 20 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 protected | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Stana | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drive | past · progressive | Stana | the flock | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent flock=Theme wolf=Destination | ||||
| 3 | protect | past | Stana not said here | the sheep | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Beneficiary |
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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