The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 86
And next morning the stone gave way, and the sacred statue fell on its face and was broken.
Who acts: stone, sacred statue · What happens: give, fall, break · To what, where: way, face
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 (stone, sacred statue), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 gave | cc |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stone | det |
| 5 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fell | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fell | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 statue | det |
| 11 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 statue | amod |
| 12 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | nsubj |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gave | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 face | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 face | nmod:poss |
| 16 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 broken | cc |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 broken | aux:pass |
| 19 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 fell | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the stone | way | morning | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | |||
| 2 | fall | past | the sacred statue | stone's face | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on face=Location | ||||
| 3 | break | past · passive | the sacred statue not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V» |
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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