The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 110
Vassili walked in, and went from one room to another astonished at all the splendour he saw.
Who acts: Vassili, sun · What happens: walk in, go, see · To what, where: one room, splendour
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vassili, sun), 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 | Vassili | Vassili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 walked | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 went | cc |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 room | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 room | nummod |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 astonished | case |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 astonished | det |
| 12 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 went | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 splendour | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 splendour | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 splendour | det |
| 16 | splendour | splendour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 astonished | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 splendour | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk in | past | Vassili | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past | Vassili not said here | one room | to another astonished | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from room=Initial_Location to astonished=Destination | |||
| 3 | see | past | sun | all splendour not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer splendour=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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