The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 12
Anastasia, who had heard every word, ran straight to her father, and told him all.
Who acts: Anastasia · What happens: hear, run, tell · To what, where: word, all, father · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Anastasia), 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 | Anastasia | Anastasia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | aux |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Anastasia | acl |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 word | det |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Anastasia | punct |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 13 father | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 father | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 father | nmod:poss |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 told | cc |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ran | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 told | iobj |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 told | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · perfect | Anastasia | every word | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | run | past | Anastasia | to Anastasia's father result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to father=Result | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Anastasia not said here | all | father | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient all=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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