The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 87
When it was over, Iliane summoned Fet-Fruners before her, and addressed him thus:
Who acts: funeral, Iliane · What happens: be, summon, address · To what, where: Fet Fruners, emperor
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 (funeral, Iliane), 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 | 4 over | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 over | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 over | cop |
| 4 | over | over | ADV | _ | 7 summoned | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 over | punct |
| 6 | Iliane | Iliane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 summoned | nsubj |
| 7 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Fet | Fet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Fruners | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Fet | punct |
| 10 | Fruners | fruner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 summoned | obj |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 summoned | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 addressed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 addressed | cc |
| 15 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 summoned | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 addressed | obj |
| 17 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 15 addressed | advmod |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | funeral | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | summon | past | Iliane | Fet Fruners | before death | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruner=Recipient | |||
| 3 | address | past | Iliane not said here | emperor | thus property | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination |
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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