The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 38
But with one wrench he set himself free, and said to her, ‘Sister, that cord is not strong enough for me.’
Who acts: back, Sister · What happens: set, say, not be · To what, where: back, 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 (back, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 set | cc |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 wrench | case |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 wrench | nummod |
| 4 | wrench | wrench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 set | nsubj |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 set | obj |
| 8 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 set | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 set | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 strong | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 Sister | punct |
| 16 | Sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 strong | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cord | punct |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 cord | det |
| 19 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Sister | conj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 strong | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 strong | advmod |
| 22 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 23 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 22 strong | advmod |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 me | case |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 strong | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | back | back | with one wrench; free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent himself=Patient with wrench=Instrument | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | back not said here | sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | Sister and that cord | for me; enough, strong 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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