The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 72
They walked on a little further, till the prince thought he heard the grinding of a saw-mill, as if dozens of saws were working together, but his guide observed, ‘The grandmother is sleeping soundly; listen how she snores.’
Who acts: water, prince, dozens, guide, grandmother · What happens: walk, think, hear, work together, observe, sleep · To what, where: grinding · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (water, prince, dozens, guide), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 further | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 little | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 further | obl |
| 6 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 walked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 thought | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 heard | nsubj |
| 13 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 grinding | det |
| 15 | grinding | grinding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heard | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 mill | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 mill | det |
| 18 | saw | saw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mill | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
| 20 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grinding | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 working | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 working | mark |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 working | mark |
| 24 | dozens | dozen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 working | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 saws | case |
| 26 | saws | saw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 dozens | nmod |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 working | aux |
| 28 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 heard | conj |
| 29 | together | together | ADV | _ | 28 working | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 observed | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 observed | cc |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 guide | nmod:poss |
| 33 | guide | guide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 observed | nsubj |
| 34 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 sleeping | punct |
| 36 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 40 sleeping | punct |
| 37 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 grandmother | det |
| 38 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 sleeping | nsubj |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 sleeping | aux |
| 40 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 observed | ccomp |
| 41 | soundly | soundly | ADV | _ | 40 sleeping | advmod |
| 42 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 listen | punct |
| 43 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | parataxis |
| 44 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 46 snores | advmod |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 snores | nsubj |
| 46 | snores | snore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 listen | advcl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 43 listen | punct |
| 48 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 43 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | water | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on far=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the prince | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hear | past | prince | the grinding of a saw mill | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer grinding=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | work together a condition, not said to happen | past · progressive | dozens of saws | together property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | observe | past | prince's guide | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | sleep | present · progressive | the grandmother | soundly property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | listen | infinitive | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | snore | present | grandmother | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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