The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 60
The cook, seized with fright at this command, which he knew he could not fulfil, fell on his knees, and confessed the truth.
Who acts: two, cook · What happens: seize, know, not fulfil, fall, confess · To what, where: cook, command, knees, truth · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (two, cook), 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 cook | det |
| 2 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 seized | punct |
| 4 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 cook | acl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 fright | case |
| 6 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seized | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 command | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 command | det |
| 9 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seized | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knew | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 knew | obj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 knew | nsubj |
| 13 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 command | acl:relcl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fulfil | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 fulfil | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 fulfil | advmod |
| 17 | fulfil | fulfil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 knew | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 cook | punct |
| 19 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 knees | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 knees | nmod:poss |
| 22 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fell | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 confessed | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 confessed | cc |
| 25 | confessed | confess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fell | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 truth | det |
| 27 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 confessed | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | participle | the cook not said here | this command | with fright | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | know | past | two | this command | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not fulfil | could | two | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fall | past | the cook | two's knees | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location | ||||
| 5 | confess | past | the cook not said here | the truth | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Topic |
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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