The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 46
You may imagine what the youngest brother felt on hearing these words.
Who acts: You, youngest brother · What happens: imagine, feel, hear · To what, where: words
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, youngest brother), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 imagine | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 imagine | aux |
| 3 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 felt | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 brother | det |
| 6 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 brother | amod |
| 7 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 felt | nsubj |
| 8 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 imagine | ccomp |
| 9 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 10 hearing | mark |
| 10 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 felt | advcl |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 words | det |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hearing | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | may | You | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | feel | past | the youngest brother | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hear | gerund | the youngest brother not said here | this words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
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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