The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 82
He only stuck the rose in his hat, and turned a deaf ear to all her prayers.
Who acts: youth, light · What happens: stick, turn, pray · To what, where: rose, hat, deaf ear, prayers
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 (youth, light), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stuck | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 stuck | advmod |
| 3 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rose | det |
| 5 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stuck | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hat | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hat | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stuck | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 turned | cc |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stuck | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 ear | det |
| 13 | deaf | deaf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ear | amod |
| 14 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 prayers | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 prayers | det:predet |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 prayers | nmod:poss |
| 18 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 turned | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stuck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick | past | youth | the rose | youth's hat | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rose=Theme in hat=Destination | |||
| 2 | turn | past | youth not said here | a deaf ear | light's prayers | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent ear=Theme to prayer=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | pray | light | nom prayer «act intransitive»: 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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