The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 131
Then she vanished, and was never seen again, nor the wonder-working basket either; but now that Dotterine’s troubles were over she could get on without them, and she and the young king lived happily together till the end of their days.
Who acts: godmother, troubles, Dotterine · What happens: vanish, not see, work, get on, live, trouble
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 (godmother, troubles, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 vanished | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 vanished | nsubj |
| 3 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seen | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 seen | cc |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seen | aux:pass |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 seen | advmod |
| 8 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 vanished | parataxis |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 seen | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 basket | punct |
| 11 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 basket | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 basket | det |
| 13 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 working | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 wonder | punct |
| 15 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 basket | amod |
| 16 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seen | conj |
| 17 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 basket | advmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 get | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 get | cc |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 get | advmod |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 get | mark |
| 22 | Dotterine | Dotterine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 troubles | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 Dotterine | case |
| 24 | troubles | trouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 get | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 get | aux |
| 26 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 29 get | mark |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 get | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 get | aux |
| 29 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 vanished | conj |
| 30 | on | on | ADV | _ | 29 get | advmod |
| 31 | without | without | ADP | _ | 32 them | case |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 get | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 lived | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 lived | cc |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 lived | nsubj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 king | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 king | det |
| 38 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 king | amod |
| 39 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 she | conj |
| 40 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 vanished | conj |
| 41 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 40 lived | advmod |
| 42 | together | together | ADV | _ | 40 lived | advmod |
| 43 | till | till | ADP | _ | 45 end | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 end | det |
| 45 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 lived | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 days | case |
| 47 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 days | nmod:poss |
| 48 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 end | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 vanished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past | godmother | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not see | past · passive | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | work | gerund | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | get on | could · past | Dotterine's troubles | now | without maidens = maiden | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | live | past | godmother | till the end of troubles's days | happily, together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | trouble | Dotterine | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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