The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 127
‘It must stand till some one comes and pushes it down with his foot.
Who acts: oak, one · What happens: stand, come, push down · To what, where: oak
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 (oak, one), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 stand | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stand | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 stand | aux |
| 4 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 comes | mark |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 one | det |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 comes | nsubj |
| 8 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stand | advcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pushes | cc |
| 10 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 comes | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pushes | obj |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 pushes | compound:prt |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 foot | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 foot | nmod:poss |
| 15 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pushes | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | must | oak | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | present | some one | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | push down | present | some one not said here | oak | with King's foot | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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