The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 100
‘Very well,’ said the prince, ‘I don’t mind’; and she stretched out her rod and hit the beasts, and in one moment they were turned into stone, and so was the prince.
Who acts: I, wolf · What happens: say, not mind, stretch out, hit, turn, be · To what, where: prince, rod, beasts, stone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wolf), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mind | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 mind | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 mind | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 mind | aux |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 mind | advmod |
| 14 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 mind | punct |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 stretched | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stretched | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stretched | nsubj |
| 19 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 stretched | compound:prt |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 rod | nmod:poss |
| 22 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stretched | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 hit | cc |
| 24 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 stretched | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 beasts | det |
| 26 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 hit | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 turned | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 turned | cc |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 moment | case |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 moment | nummod |
| 31 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 turned | obl |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 turned | nsubj |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 turned | aux:pass |
| 34 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | conj |
| 35 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 stone | case |
| 36 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 turned | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 prince | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 prince | cc |
| 39 | so | so | ADV | _ | 42 prince | advmod |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 prince | cop |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 prince | det |
| 42 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 turned | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the prince | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not mind | present · do-support | I | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | stretch out | past | wolf | wolf's rod | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rod=Patient | ||||
| 4 | hit | past | wolf not said here | the beasts | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme beast=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | turn | past · passive | beasts = beast | stone | moment | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into stone=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | is a | past | the prince | 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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