The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 8
‘In the next village the peasant Ivan has just had his seventh son.
Who acts: peasant Ivan · What happens: have · To what, where: seventh son, next village
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 (peasant 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 village | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 village | det |
| 4 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 village | amod |
| 5 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Ivan | det |
| 7 | peasant | peasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Ivan | amod |
| 8 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 had | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 had | aux |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 had | advmod |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 son | amod |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · perfect | the peasant Ivan | Ivan's seventh son | the next village | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
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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