The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 74
Ah, what a warrior he was, and what good times we shared together!
Who acts: we · What happens: share
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 (we), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 3 what | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 warrior | det |
| 5 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 what | nsubj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 was | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 warrior | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shared | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shared | cc |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 shared | obj |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 times | amod |
| 12 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shared | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 shared | nsubj |
| 14 | shared | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 14 shared | advmod |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | past | we | time | together property | tree rules |
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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