The Violet Fairy Book, The Violet Fairy Book, sentence 25
The first of the stories actually written down, were written in Egyptian hieroglyphs, or on Babylonian cakes of clay, three or four thousand years before our time.
What happens: write down, write · To what, where: stories, first, Egyptian hieroglyphs
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Violet Fairy Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 first | det |
| 2 | first | first | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 written | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 stories | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stories | det |
| 5 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 first | nmod |
| 6 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 7 written | advmod |
| 7 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stories | acl |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 written | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 first | punct |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 written | aux:pass |
| 11 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hieroglyphs | case |
| 13 | Egyptian | Egyptian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hieroglyphs | amod |
| 14 | hieroglyphs | hieroglyph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 written | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cakes | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 cakes | cc |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 cakes | case |
| 18 | Babylonian | Babylonian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 cakes | compound |
| 19 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hieroglyphs | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 clay | case |
| 21 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cakes | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 three | punct |
| 23 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 thousand | compound |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 four | cc |
| 25 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 three | conj |
| 26 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 years | nummod |
| 27 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 cakes | nmod |
| 28 | before | before | ADP | _ | 30 time | case |
| 29 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 time | nmod:poss |
| 30 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 written | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 written | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write down | participle | the stories not said here | actually property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | write | past · passive | the first of the stories | Egyptian hieroglyphs or Babylonian cakes of clay thousand years | time | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in hieroglyph=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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