The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 113
Then she seemed to hear a voice whisper to her, ‘Look in your basket, and you will find in it everything that you need.’
Who acts: Dotterine, you · What happens: seem, hear, look, find, need · To what, where: voice whisper, Dotterine, everything, basket
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, you), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 seemed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 hear | mark |
| 5 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seemed | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 whisper | det |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 whisper | compound |
| 8 | whisper | whisper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hear | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hear | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Look | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 Look | punct |
| 13 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hear | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 basket | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 basket | nmod:poss |
| 16 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Look | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 find | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 find | cc |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 find | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 find | aux |
| 21 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 Look | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 find | obl |
| 24 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 21 find | obj |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 need | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 need | nsubj |
| 27 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 everything | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | Dotterine | then | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | Dotterine not said here | a voice whisper | Dotterine | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer whisper=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | look | infinitive | Dotterine not said here | in your basket | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in basket=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | future | you | everything | basket | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic | |||
| 5 | need | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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