The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 95
‘Is it? let us see!’ said the second prince, pushing the servants to right and left.
Who acts: servant · What happens: be, see, say, push, leave · To what, where: second prince, servants, right · 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 (servant), 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 let | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 let | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 prince | det |
| 12 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 prince | amod |
| 13 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pushing | punct |
| 15 | pushing | push | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 servants | det |
| 17 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pushing | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 right | case |
| 19 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pushing | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 left | cc |
| 21 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | servant | let property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | servant not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the second prince | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | push | gerund | the servants | right | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent servant=Theme to right=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | leave | past | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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