The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 117
She went downstairs, and in front of the door stood a fine carriage, into which she stepped and was driven away like the wind.
Who acts: Dotterine · What happens: go, stand, step, drive away · To what, where: fine carriage, front
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), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | downstairs | downstairs | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stood | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stood | cc |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 front | case |
| 7 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 door | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 front | nmod |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 carriage | det |
| 13 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 carriage | amod |
| 14 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stepped | punct |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 stepped | obl |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stepped | nsubj |
| 19 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stood | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 driven | cc |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 driven | aux:pass |
| 22 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 stepped | conj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 driven | advmod |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 wind | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wind | det |
| 26 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 driven | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Dotterine | downstairs property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | Dotterine not said here | a fine carriage | front of the door | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent carriage=Theme in front=Destination | |||
| 3 | step | past | Dotterine | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into which=Destination | |||||
| 4 | drive away | past · passive | Dotterine not said here | like the wind; away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V» |
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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