The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 193
‘Schippeitaro is the great dog that belongs to the overseer of our prince,’ said they; ‘and he lives not far away.’
Who acts: Schippeitaro, great dog · What happens: be, belong, say, not live · To what, where: great dog · 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: who acts (Schippeitaro, great dog), 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 | _ | 6 dog | punct |
| 2 | Schippeitaro | Schippeitaro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 dog | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dog | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dog | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dog | amod |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 belongs | nsubj |
| 8 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dog | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 overseer | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 overseer | det |
| 11 | overseer | overseer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 belongs | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 prince | case |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 prince | nmod:poss |
| 14 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 overseer | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dog | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 dog | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lives | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 lives | nsubj |
| 23 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | conj |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 lives | advmod |
| 25 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 away | advmod |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 lives | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 lives | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Schippeitaro | the great dog | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | belong | present | the great dog | to the overseer of our prince | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the great dog | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not live | present | SCHIPPEITARO | away property | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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