The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 50
‘I have never heard one whose tone was as sweet as mine!
Who acts: I, tone · What happens: not hear, be · To what, where: one
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, tone), 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 heard | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 heard | advmod |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 heard | obj |
| 7 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 8 tone | nmod:poss |
| 8 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sweet | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sweet | cop |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 sweet | advmod |
| 11 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 one | parataxis |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 mine | case |
| 13 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sweet | obl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | present · perfect | I | one | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | tone | as mine; sweet 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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