English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 58
But the Baron was in a tower of a temper, and started up as if he would do her some violence.
Who acts: Baron · What happens: be, start up, do · To what, where: tower, cook
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Baron), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 tower | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Baron | det |
| 3 | Baron | Baron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 tower | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 tower | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 tower | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tower | det |
| 7 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 temper | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 temper | det |
| 10 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tower | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 started | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 started | cc |
| 13 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 tower | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 started | compound:prt |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 started | advcl |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 do | obj |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 violence | det |
| 22 | violence | violence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 do | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tower | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Baron | a tower | of a temper | tree rules | |||
| 2 | start up | past | the Baron not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | do | would | baron | cook | tree rules |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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