The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 62
‘It stands,’ he said, ‘on the altar of a little church, and is guarded by a troop of nuns.
Who acts: water, emperor, troop · What happens: stand, say, guard · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, emperor, troop), 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 stands | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stands | nsubj |
| 3 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stands | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 stands | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stands | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 altar | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 altar | punct |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 altar | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 altar | det |
| 12 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 church | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 church | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 church | amod |
| 16 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 altar | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 guarded | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 guarded | cc |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 guarded | aux:pass |
| 20 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 troop | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 troop | det |
| 23 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 guarded | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 nuns | case |
| 25 | nuns | nun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 troop | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | water | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | emperor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | guard | present · passive | a troop of nuns | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: 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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