The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 38
And she stood on tip-toe and whispered something in his ear, and then went away.
Who acts: cow · What happens: stand, whisper, go away · To what, where: tip toe, something, ear
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cow), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 stood | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 toe | case |
| 5 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 toe | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 tip | punct |
| 7 | toe | toe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 whispered | cc |
| 9 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 whispered | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 ear | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 ear | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 whispered | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 went | advmod |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | cow | tip toe | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on toe=Location | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | cow not said here | something | maiden's ear | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | |||
| 3 | go away | past | cow not said here | then | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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