The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 122
But before she could decide, a little swallow flew up with the basket in its beak, and the girl was happy again.
Who acts: Dotterine, little swallow, girl · What happens: decide, fly up, be
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, little swallow, girl), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 flew | cc |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 5 decide | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 decide | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 decide | aux |
| 5 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 flew | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 decide | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 swallow | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 swallow | amod |
| 9 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flew | nsubj |
| 10 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 flew | compound:prt |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 basket | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 basket | det |
| 14 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flew | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 beak | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 beak | nmod:poss |
| 17 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 basket | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 happy | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 happy | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 girl | det |
| 21 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 happy | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 happy | cop |
| 23 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 flew | conj |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 happy | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | could | Dotterine | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fly up | past | a little swallow | with the basket in basket's beak | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the girl | again | happy property | tree rules |
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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