The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 55
Then he set out with his companion, and chattered so fast that he never noticed that his new servant kept dropping peas out of the sack.
Who acts: wood, new servant · What happens: set out, chatter, not notice, keep, drop · To what, where: peas, sack
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wood, new servant), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 set | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 companion | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 companion | nmod:poss |
| 7 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 chattered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 chattered | cc |
| 10 | chattered | chatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 fast | advmod |
| 12 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 chattered | advmod |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 noticed | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 noticed | nsubj |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 noticed | advmod |
| 16 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 chattered | advcl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 kept | mark |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 servant | nmod:poss |
| 19 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 servant | amod |
| 20 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 kept | nsubj |
| 21 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 noticed | advcl |
| 22 | dropping | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 kept | xcomp |
| 23 | peas | pea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 dropping | obj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 sack | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 sack | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sack | det |
| 27 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dropping | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | wood | then | with wood's companion | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | chatter | past | wood not said here | fast property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not notice | past | wood | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | keep | past | wood's new servant | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | drop | gerund | wood's new servant not said here | peas | the sack | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pea=Theme out sack=Destination |
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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