The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 6
So the girl at once attacked the other genius, and soon clove his skull; then the one who was left victor begged her to come back with him to his house and he would hand her over Sunlight, as he had promised.
Who acts: girl, one, other · What happens: attack, clove, leave, beg, come back, hand · To what, where: other genius, skull, one, girl, house, Sunlight
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 (girl, one, other), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 attacked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 attacked | nsubj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 girl | nmod |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 attacked | advmod |
| 6 | attacked | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 genius | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 genius | amod |
| 9 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 attacked | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 clove | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 clove | cc |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 clove | advmod |
| 13 | clove | clove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 attacked | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 skull | nmod:poss |
| 15 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 clove | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 begged | punct |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 begged | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 begged | nsubj |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 left | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 left | aux:pass |
| 22 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 one | acl:relcl |
| 23 | victor | victor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 left | obj |
| 24 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 attacked | conj |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 begged | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 come | mark |
| 27 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 begged | xcomp |
| 28 | back | back | ADV | _ | 27 come | advmod |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 come | obl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 house | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 house | nmod:poss |
| 33 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 come | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 hand | cc |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 hand | nsubj |
| 36 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 hand | aux |
| 37 | hand | hand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 begged | conj |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 hand | obj |
| 39 | over | over | ADP | _ | 40 Sunlight | case |
| 40 | Sunlight | Sunlight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 hand | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 promised | punct |
| 42 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 45 promised | mark |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 promised | nsubj |
| 44 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 promised | aux |
| 45 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 begged | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 attacked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attack | past | the girl | the other genius | once property | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent genius=Patient | |||
| 2 | clove | past | the girl not said here | other's skull | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | leave | past · passive | the one | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme victor=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | past | the one | girl | then | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 5 | come back not said to happen | to-infinitive | the one not said here | other's house | with other | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | hand | would | other | girl | Sunlight | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 7 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect | other | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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