The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 77
He drew forth the vase from his tunic and held it up to the emperor, saying: ‘Mighty Sovereign, all hail!
Who acts: hermit · What happens: draw, hold up, say · To what, where: vase, tunic, Mighty Sovereign · 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 (hermit), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 2 drew | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 vase | det |
| 5 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drew | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 tunic | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 tunic | nmod:poss |
| 8 | tunic | tunic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drew | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 held | cc |
| 10 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drew | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 held | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 held | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 emperor | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 emperor | det |
| 15 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 held | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saying | punct |
| 17 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 held | advcl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 Sovereign | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 Sovereign | punct |
| 20 | Mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Sovereign | amod |
| 21 | Sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saying | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hail | punct |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 hail | det |
| 24 | hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Sovereign | appos |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | hermit | the vase | hermit's tunic | forth property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent vase=Theme from tunic=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | hold up | past | hermit not said here | vase | to the emperor | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | hermit not said here | Mighty Sovereign | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sovereign=Topic |
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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