The Violet Fairy Book, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan, sentence 19
Weeks passed away, and there sprang up in the hole an elder tree which had three stems, all as straight as poplars.
Who acts: Weeks, elder tree · What happens: pass away, spring up, have · To what, where: hole, three stems
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 (Weeks, elder tree), 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 | Weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 passed | nsubj |
| 2 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 passed | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sprang | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sprang | cc |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 sprang | expl |
| 7 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 passed | conj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 sprang | compound:prt |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hole | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hole | det |
| 11 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sprang | obl |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 13 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tree | compound |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hole | appos |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 tree | acl:relcl |
| 17 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 stems | nummod |
| 18 | stems | stem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 had | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 straight | punct |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 straight | nsubj |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 straight | advmod |
| 22 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 passed | parataxis |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 poplars | case |
| 24 | poplars | poplar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 straight | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass away | past | Weeks | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | spring up | past | Weeks not said here | the hole; there | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hole=Location | ||||
| 3 | have | past | a elder tree | three stems | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stem=Patient |
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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