The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 15
‘Yesterday,’ said the priest, ‘a boy was born in the poorest house in the village.
What happens: say, bear · To what, where: priest, boy, poorest house · 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: 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 | _ | 2 Yesterday | punct |
| 2 | Yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yesterday | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yesterday | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 priest | det |
| 7 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 born | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 born | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 boy | det |
| 11 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 born | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 born | aux:pass |
| 13 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 house | det |
| 16 | poorest | poor | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 house | amod |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 born | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 village | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 village | det |
| 20 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 house | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the priest | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent priest=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bear | past · passive | a boy | the poorest house in the village | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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