The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 4
But as years passed away, his head grew weary of making plans of campaign, and his people wanted to stay at home and till their fields, and at last he too felt that he must do homage to the other emperor.
Who acts: years, head, people, king · What happens: pass away, grow, make, want, stay, feel · To what, where: plans, home, last, homage, campaign
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (years, head, people, king), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 grew | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 passed | mark |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 grew | advcl |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 passed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grew | nsubj |
| 9 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 grew | xcomp |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 making | mark |
| 12 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 weary | advcl |
| 13 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 making | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 campaign | case |
| 15 | campaign | campaign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 plans | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wanted | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wanted | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 people | nmod:poss |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 wanted | nsubj |
| 20 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 grew | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 stay | mark |
| 22 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 wanted | xcomp |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 home | case |
| 24 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stay | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 fields | cc |
| 26 | till | till | ADP | _ | 28 fields | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 fields | nmod:poss |
| 28 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 home | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 felt | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 felt | cc |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 last | case |
| 32 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 felt | obl |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 felt | nsubj |
| 34 | too | too | ADV | _ | 35 felt | advmod |
| 35 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 wanted | conj |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 do | mark |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 do | nsubj |
| 38 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 do | aux |
| 39 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 felt | xcomp |
| 40 | homage | homage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 do | obj |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 emperor | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 emperor | det |
| 43 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 emperor | amod |
| 44 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 do | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass away | participle | years | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | king's head | weary property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | king's head not said here | plans of campaign | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset plan=Product | ||||
| 4 | want | past | king's people | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | stay not said to happen | to-infinitive | king's people not said here | home and people's fields | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | ||||
| 6 | feel | past | king | last | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 7 | do | must | king | homage | to the other emperor | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homage=Eventuality | |||
| 8 | plan | campaign | nom plan «cognition 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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