The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 3
There she met two Genii who had been fighting fiercely for two years, without one having got the least advantage over the other.
Who acts: princess · What happens: meet, fight, have, get · To what, where: two Genii, least advantage, other
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 met | expl |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 met | nsubj |
| 3 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 Genii | nummod |
| 5 | Genii | Genii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 met | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 fighting | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fighting | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 fighting | aux |
| 9 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 met | advcl |
| 10 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 9 fighting | advmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 years | case |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fighting | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 got | punct |
| 15 | without | without | ADP | _ | 16 one | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 got | obl |
| 17 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 got | nsubj |
| 18 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 met | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 advantage | det |
| 20 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 advantage | amod |
| 21 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 got | obj |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 other | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 other | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 got | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | princess | two Genii | there | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent genii=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | fight | past · perfect · progressive | year | fiercely property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | get | past | the least advantage | the other | without one | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer advantage=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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