The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 26
Ivan scratched his head, and thought, and thought, and then he agreed.
Who acts: Ivan · What happens: scratch, think, agree · To what, where: head · 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 (Ivan), 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 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 scratched | nsubj |
| 2 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 scratched | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 thought | cc |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 scratched | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thought | cc |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 thought | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 agreed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 agreed | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 agreed | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 agreed | nsubj |
| 15 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 scratched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scratch | past | Ivan | Ivan's head | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Ivan not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Ivan not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | agree speech: agree | past | Ivan | then | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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