The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 120
The beautiful girl sat down near him, stroking his hideous head, and said in a sweet coaxing voice: ‘You know everything in the world.
Who acts: beautiful girl, You · What happens: sit down, stroke, say, coax, know · To what, where: hideous head, sweet, voice, everything, world · 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 (beautiful girl, You), 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 | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 sat | compound:prt |
| 6 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sat | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stroking | punct |
| 9 | stroking | stroke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sat | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 head | amod |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stroking | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 sweet | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 sweet | det |
| 18 | sweet | sweet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obl |
| 19 | coaxing | coax | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 said | xcomp |
| 20 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 coaxing | obj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 know | punct |
| 22 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 know | punct |
| 23 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 know | nsubj |
| 24 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 25 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 24 know | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 world | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 world | det |
| 28 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 everything | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | the beautiful girl | near sun | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near he=Location | ||||
| 2 | stroke | gerund | the beautiful girl not said here | sun's hideous head | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the beautiful girl not said here | a sweet | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | coax | gerund | the beautiful girl not said here | voice | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient | ||||
| 5 | know | present | You | everything | the world | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=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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