The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 191
The mention of the chapel set him thinking of the scene of the previous night, and he went over all the details again in his mind.
Who acts: mention, man · What happens: set, think, go over, mention, mind · To what, where: man, details, mind, chapel
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 (mention, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mention | det |
| 2 | mention | mention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 chapel | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chapel | det |
| 5 | chapel | chapel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mention | nmod |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 set | obj |
| 8 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 set | xcomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 scene | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 scene | det |
| 11 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thinking | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 night | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 night | det |
| 14 | previous | previous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 night | amod |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 scene | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 set | conj |
| 20 | over | over | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 details | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 details | det |
| 23 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 went | obj |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 mind | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 mind | nmod:poss |
| 27 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | the mention of the chapel | man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | the mention of the chapel not said here | of the scene of the previous night | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go over | past | man | all details | man's mind | again | over property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detail=Theme | |
| 4 | mention | the chapel | nom mention «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | mind | man | 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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