The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 62
‘It is very heavy for me!’ said the other bed, ‘for on me lies an evil soul.’
Who acts: language, other bed · What happens: be, say, lie · To what, where: evil soul · 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 (language, other bed), 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 | _ | 5 heavy | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heavy | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 heavy | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 heavy | advmod |
| 5 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 heavy | obl |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 heavy | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 heavy | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bed | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bed | amod |
| 13 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lies | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 lies | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 lies | obl |
| 19 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 soul | det |
| 21 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 soul | amod |
| 22 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lies | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 lies | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | language | for me; heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the other bed | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | lie | present | a evil soul | for me | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location soul=Theme |
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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