The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 31
The Cerisette persuaded her mother to cut a great hole in the side of the carriage with a sharp knife which she herself had brought for the purpose.
Who acts: Cerisette · What happens: persuade, cut, bring · To what, where: mother, great hole, side, sharp knife
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cerisette), 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 Cerisette | det |
| 2 | Cerisette | Cerisette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 persuaded | nsubj |
| 3 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 persuaded | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 cut | mark |
| 7 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 persuaded | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hole | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hole | amod |
| 10 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cut | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 side | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 side | det |
| 13 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cut | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 carriage | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 carriage | det |
| 16 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 side | nmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 knife | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 knife | det |
| 19 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 knife | amod |
| 20 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cut | obl |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 brought | nsubj |
| 23 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 brought | aux |
| 25 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 knife | acl:relcl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 purpose | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 purpose | det |
| 28 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 brought | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 persuaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | persuade | past | the Cerisette | Cerisette's mother | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cut | to-infinitive | the Cerisette not said here | a great hole | the side of the carriage | with a sharp knife | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient with knife=Instrument | ||
| 3 | bring | past · perfect · passive | a sharp knife | for the purpose | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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