The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 16
I named the unlucky little thing “Vassili.”
Who acts: I · What happens: name · To what, where: unlucky little thing
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 named | nsubj |
| 2 | named | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thing | det |
| 4 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thing | amod |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thing | amod |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 named | obj |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Vassili | punct |
| 8 | Vassili | Vassili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 thing | appos |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Vassili | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Vassili | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | past | I | the unlucky little thing | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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