The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 27
As soon as she looked in the robber who had only pretended to be dead sat up and said to her:
Who acts: sister · What happens: look, pretend, be, sit up, say · To what, where: robber, sister · 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 (sister), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 looked | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 looked | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 robber | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 robber | det |
| 8 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 pretended | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 pretended | aux |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 pretended | advmod |
| 12 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 robber | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 dead | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 dead | cop |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pretended | advcl |
| 16 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | advcl |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 sat | compound:prt |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sat | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | obl |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | sister | in the robber; soon property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in robber=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pretend | past · perfect · passive | the robber | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | dead property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sit up | past | sister not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | sister not said here | sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient |
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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