The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 3
The youngest of the three sons, on the contrary, made good use of his portion.
What happens: make, use · To what, where: portion
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 2 youngest | det |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sons | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sons | det |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 sons | nummod |
| 6 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 youngest | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 use | punct |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 use | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 use | det |
| 10 | contrary | contrary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 use | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 use | amod |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 use | amod |
| 14 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sons | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 portion | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 portion | nmod:poss |
| 17 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 use | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 youngest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 2 | use | eldest's portion | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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