The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 149
Then Vassili went on further still, and soon came to the old oak tree, pushed it with his foot, and it fell over.
Who acts: Vassili, place · What happens: go on, come, push, fall over · To what, where: old oak tree, place
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, place), 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 | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Vassili | Vassili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | further | further | ADV | _ | 6 still | advmod |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 came | advmod |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 tree | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tree | amod |
| 14 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tree | compound |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pushed | punct |
| 17 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 came | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 pushed | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 foot | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 foot | nmod:poss |
| 21 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pushed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fell | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 fell | cc |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 fell | nsubj |
| 25 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 26 | over | over | ADV | _ | 25 fell | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | Vassili | then; still | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the old oak tree | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | push | past | place | with tree's foot | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fall over | past | place | over property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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