The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 98
One post only was empty, and as they passed it cried out:
Who acts: One post, horses, post · What happens: be, pass, cry out
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 (One post, horses, post), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 post | nummod |
| 2 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 empty | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 empty | advmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 empty | cop |
| 5 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 passed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 passed | cc |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 passed | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 passed | nsubj |
| 10 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 empty | parataxis |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 passed | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 cried | compound:prt |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 empty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | One post | empty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | horses = horse | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | past | post | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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