The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 135
Give me the rod’; and he touched the fox with it, and in a moment it was turned into stone.
Who acts: you, master · What happens: give, touch, turn · To what, where: rod, me, fox, stone
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 (you, master), 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 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rod | det |
| 4 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obj |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 touched | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 touched | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 touched | nsubj |
| 9 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fox | det |
| 11 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 touched | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 touched | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 turned | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 turned | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 moment | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 moment | det |
| 18 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 turned | obl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 turned | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 turned | aux:pass |
| 21 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 touched | conj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 stone | case |
| 23 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 turned | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | the rod | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient rod=Theme | |||
| 2 | touch | past | master | the fox | with rod | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent fox=Experiencer with it=Instrument | |||
| 3 | turn | past · passive | rod | stone | moment | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into stone=Trajectory |
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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