The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 80
I was there too, and ate and drank many good things.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, eat, drink · To what, where: many good things
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 there | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 there | cop |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 there | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ate | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ate | cc |
| 7 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 there | parataxis |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 drank | cc |
| 9 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ate | conj |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 things | amod |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 things | amod |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 drank | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | past | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | drink | past | many good things | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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