The Violet Fairy Book, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan, sentence 14
The youth replied that he had been tormenting himself for some months, and should never feel easy until some one shared his secret.
Who acts: youth, one · What happens: reply, torment, not feel, share · To what, where: youth, secret
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, one), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 tormenting | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tormenting | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tormenting | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 tormenting | aux |
| 8 | tormenting | torment | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 replied | advcl |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 tormenting | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 months | case |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 months | det |
| 12 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tormenting | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 feel | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 feel | cc |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 feel | aux |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 feel | advmod |
| 17 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 replied | conj |
| 18 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 feel | xcomp |
| 19 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 22 shared | mark |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 one | det |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 shared | nsubj |
| 22 | shared | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 feel | advcl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 secret | nmod:poss |
| 24 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shared | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the youth | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | torment | past · perfect · progressive | youth | youth | month | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | not feel | should | the youth not said here | easy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | share | past | some one | youth's secret | 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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