The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 49
‘I shall never find another flute like that, moaned he.
Who acts: I · What happens: not find, moan · To what, where: flute, boy
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), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 find | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 find | advmod |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 flute | det |
| 7 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obj |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 that | case |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 flute | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 moaned | punct |
| 11 | moaned | moan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | conj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 moaned | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not find | shall | I | another flute | like that | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flute=Topic | |||
| 2 | moan | past | I not said here | boy | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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