The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 78
And the faithful beasts came round the dead body and wept, and wondered what they should do.
Who acts: faithful beasts, beasts · What happens: come, weep, wonder, do · To what, where: dead body · 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 (faithful beasts, beasts), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 came | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 beasts | det |
| 3 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beasts | amod |
| 4 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | round | round | ADP | _ | 9 body | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 body | det |
| 8 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 body | amod |
| 9 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wept | cc |
| 11 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wondered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wondered | cc |
| 14 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 do | obj |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 do | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 do | aux |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wondered | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the faithful beasts | the dead body | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round body=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | weep | past | the faithful beasts not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | past | the faithful beasts not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | do | should | beasts = beast | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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