The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 4
And his son replied, ‘I will sit up to-night and watch the tree, and I shall soon see who it is!’
Who acts: son, I, tree · What happens: reply, sit up, watch, see, be · To what, where: tree · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, I, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 replied | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sit | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 sit | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 sit | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 sit | aux |
| 9 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 replied | ccomp |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 sit | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 night | case |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 to | punct |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sit | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 watch | cc |
| 15 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sit | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tree | det |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 watch | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 see | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 see | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 see | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 see | aux |
| 22 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 see | advmod |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sit | conj |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 see | ccomp |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 who | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 who | cop |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 sit | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | emperor's son | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | sit up | future | I | night | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | watch | infinitive | I not said here | the tree | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | shall | I | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | tree | 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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