The Violet Fairy Book, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan, sentence 18
And as he said so a great burden seemed to roll off him, and he shovelled the earth carefully back and ran lightly home.
Who acts: Trojan, great burden · What happens: say, seem, roll off, shovell, run · To what, where: Trojan, earth · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Trojan, great burden), 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 | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 said | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 seemed | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 burden | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 burden | amod |
| 8 | burden | burden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seemed | nsubj |
| 9 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 roll | mark |
| 11 | roll | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 seemed | xcomp |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 roll | compound:prt |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 roll | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shovelled | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 shovelled | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 shovelled | nsubj |
| 17 | shovelled | shovell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 earth | det |
| 19 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shovelled | obj |
| 20 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 21 back | advmod |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 shovelled | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ran | cc |
| 23 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 shovelled | conj |
| 24 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 25 home | advmod |
| 25 | home | home | ADV | _ | 23 ran | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Trojan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | seem | past | a great burden | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | roll off | to-infinitive | a great burden not said here | Trojan | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Agent | ||||
| 4 | shovell | past | Trojan | the earth | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | run | past | Trojan not said here | home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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