The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 19
The merchant’s heart beat fast, and his mind was full of bad thoughts about that poor little baby.
Who acts: heart, mind · What happens: beat, be, mind
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 (heart, mind), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 merchant | det |
| 2 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heart | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 merchant | case |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beat | nsubj |
| 5 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 beat | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 full | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 full | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mind | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 full | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 full | cop |
| 12 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 beat | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 thoughts | case |
| 14 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 thoughts | amod |
| 15 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 full | obl |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 baby | case |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 baby | nsubj |
| 18 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 baby | amod |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 baby | amod |
| 20 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thoughts | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | present | the merchant's heart | fast property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | heart's mind | of bad thoughts about poor little baby; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mind | heart | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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