The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 40
The Lion replied: ‘They knew they were being tried, and they did violence to their feelings.’
Who acts: Lion, wheels · What happens: reply, know, try, do · To what, where: wheels, violence · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, wheels), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Lion | det |
| 2 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 knew | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 knew | punct |
| 6 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 knew | nsubj |
| 7 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 replied | advcl |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 tried | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 tried | aux:pass |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 tried | aux:pass |
| 11 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 knew | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 did | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 did | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 did | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 replied | conj |
| 16 | violence | violence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 did | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 feelings | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 feelings | nmod:poss |
| 19 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 did | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Lion | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | know | past | wheels = wheel | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | try | past · passive | wheels = wheel | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | do | past | wheels = wheel | violence | to wheels's feelings | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent violence=Eventuality |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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