The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 72
When Mark saw Vassili he flew into a terrible rage with his wife.
Who acts: Mark · What happens: see, fly · To what, where: Vassili, terrible rage
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 (Mark), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | Mark | Mark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flew | advcl |
| 4 | Vassili | Vassili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 flew | nsubj |
| 6 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 rage | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 rage | det |
| 9 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rage | amod |
| 10 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flew | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 wife | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rage | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Mark | Vassili | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vassili=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | Mark | into a terrible rage with Mark's wife result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into rage=Result |
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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