The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 101
One morning Dotterine was busy scouring a wooden tub, when a noble lady happened to pass through the village.
Who acts: Dotterine, noble lady · What happens: be, scour, happen, pass · To what, where: wooden tub, village
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 (Dotterine, noble lady), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 morning | nummod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 busy | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Dotterine | Dotterine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 busy | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 busy | cop |
| 5 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | scouring | scour | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 busy | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tub | det |
| 8 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tub | amod |
| 9 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scouring | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 happened | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 happened | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 lady | det |
| 13 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lady | amod |
| 14 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 happened | nsubj |
| 15 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 busy | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 pass | mark |
| 17 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 happened | xcomp |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 village | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 village | det |
| 20 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pass | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Dotterine | morning | busy property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | scour | gerund | Dotterine not said here | a wooden tub | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tub=Theme | ||||
| 3 | happen | past | a noble lady | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | pass | to-infinitive | a noble lady not said here | the village | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through village=Location |
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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