The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 4
But one afternoon, when the boys were given a holiday, he took a long walk, and found himself in a place where he had never been before.
Who acts: boy · What happens: give, take, find, not be · To what, where: one afternoon, long walk, boy, place
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 given | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 afternoon | nummod |
| 3 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 given | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 given | punct |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 given | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boys | det |
| 7 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 given | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 given | aux:pass |
| 9 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 holiday | det |
| 11 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 given | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 given | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 walk | det |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 walk | amod |
| 17 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 found | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 found | cc |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 found | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 place | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 place | det |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 found | obl |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 before | advmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 before | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 before | aux |
| 28 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 30 before | advmod |
| 29 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 before | cop |
| 30 | before | before | ADV | _ | 24 place | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | one afternoon | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient holiday=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past | boy | a long walk | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | boy not said here | boy | a place | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | |||
| 4 | not is | past · perfect | boy | before property | 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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