The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 29
But on the road three wicked elves fell on me, and robbed me of my soul, so that ever since I have stayed in this spot watching my sheep without wishing for anything different, without having felt one moment’s joy, or ever once being able to laugh.
Who acts: I, spot, having, one moment · What happens: fall, rob, stay, watch, wish, have · To what, where: road, me, spot, sheep, joy
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, spot, having, one moment), 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 | _ | 8 fell | cc |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 road | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 road | det |
| 4 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fell | obl |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 elves | nummod |
| 6 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 elves | amod |
| 7 | elves | elf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 road | nmod |
| 8 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 fell | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 robbed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 robbed | cc |
| 13 | robbed | rob | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fell | conj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 robbed | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 soul | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 soul | nmod:poss |
| 17 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 robbed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stayed | punct |
| 19 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 25 stayed | mark |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 so | fixed |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 25 stayed | advmod |
| 22 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 25 stayed | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 stayed | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 stayed | aux |
| 25 | stayed | stay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 robbed | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 spot | case |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 spot | det |
| 28 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stayed | obl |
| 29 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 spot | acl |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 sheep | nmod:poss |
| 31 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 watching | obj |
| 32 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 33 wishing | mark |
| 33 | wishing | wish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 watching | advcl |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 anything | case |
| 35 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 33 wishing | obl |
| 36 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 anything | amod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 having | punct |
| 38 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 39 having | mark |
| 39 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 felt | csubj |
| 40 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 stayed | advcl |
| 41 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 moment | nummod |
| 42 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 joy | nmod:poss |
| 43 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 42 moment | case |
| 44 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 felt | obj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 able | punct |
| 46 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 50 able | cc |
| 47 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 48 once | advmod |
| 48 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 50 able | advmod |
| 49 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 50 able | cop |
| 50 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fell | conj |
| 51 | to | to | PART | _ | 52 laugh | mark |
| 52 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 able | xcomp |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the road three wicked elves | on me | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on road=Location | ||||
| 2 | rob | past | me | of my soul | vn rob-10.6.4 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme of soul=Source | ||||
| 3 | stay | present · perfect | I | this spot | ever | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in spot=Location | |||
| 4 | watch | gerund | this spot not said here | my sheep | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wish | gerund | this spot not said here | for anything | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for anything=Theme | ||||
| 6 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | feel | past | having | one moment's joy | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=Theme | ||||
| 8 | is | gerund | able, once property | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | laugh | to-infinitive | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 10 | joy | one moment | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=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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