The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 105

‘Oh, I will settle that,’ answered the lady; and so she did, and the same day they set out for the lady’s house, Dotterine sitting beside the coachman.

Who acts: I, lady, doctors · What happens: settle, answer, do, set out, sit · To what, where: that, lady, coachman

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 (I, lady, doctors), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 settle	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 settle	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 settle	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 settle	aux
6	settle	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 settle	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 settle	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lady	det
12	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answered	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 did	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 did	cc
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 did	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 did	nsubj
17	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 settle	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 set	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 set	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 day	det
21	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 day	amod
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 set	obl:unmarked
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 set	nsubj
24	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 settle	conj
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 set	compound:prt
26	for	for	ADP	_	30 house	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 lady	det
28	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 house	nmod:poss
29	’s	's	PART	_	28 lady	case
30	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 set	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Dotterine	punct
32	Dotterine	Dotterine	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 house	appos
33	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 set	xcomp
34	beside	beside	ADP	_	36 coachman	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 coachman	det
36	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sitting	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 settle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	settle	future	I	that					vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme that=Location
2	answer speech: assert	past			the lady				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent lady=Eventuality
3	do	past	lady						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	set out	past	doctors = doctor				day	for the lady's house	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	sit	gerund	doctors = doctor not said here			the coachman			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside coachman=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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