The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 137
Then he may plunge back into the sea and heal his back.’
Who acts: man · What happens: plunge back, heal · To what, where: sea, back
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 (man), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 plunge | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 plunge | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 plunge | aux |
| 4 | plunge | plunge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 plunge | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plunge | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 heal | cc |
| 10 | heal | heal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 plunge | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 back | nmod:poss |
| 12 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heal | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 plunge | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 plunge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plunge back | may | man | the sea | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into sea=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | heal | infinitive | man not said here | man's back | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent back=Patient |
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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