The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 10
The queen held out her hand, and the old woman examined its lines closely.
Who acts: queen · What happens: hold out, examine · To what, where: hand, lines
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 examined | nsubj |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 queen | acl |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 held | compound:prt |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 examined | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 examined | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 woman | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 woman | amod |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 examined | nsubj |
| 12 | examined | examine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 lines | nmod:poss |
| 14 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 examined | obj |
| 15 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 12 examined | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 examined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold out | participle | the queen not said here | queen's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 2 | examine | past | the queen | hand's lines | closely property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=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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