The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 88
‘I did; this old wide-spreading oak.
Who acts: I, this · What happens: do, spread, oak
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 (I, this), 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 | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 oak | punct |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 oak | nsubj |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 oak | amod |
| 7 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 spreading | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 wide | punct |
| 9 | spreading | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 oak | amod |
| 10 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | spread | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | oak | this | tree rules |
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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