The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 22
She held it out to the queen, saying, ‘In the basket you will find a bird’s egg.
Who acts: woman, you · What happens: hold out, say, find · To what, where: basket, egg · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (woman, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 held | nsubj |
| 2 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 held | obj |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 held | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 queen | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 queen | det |
| 7 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 held | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saying | punct |
| 9 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 held | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 find | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 find | punct |
| 12 | In | in | ADP | _ | 14 basket | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 basket | det |
| 14 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 find | obl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 find | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 find | aux |
| 17 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 saying | ccomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bird | det |
| 19 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 egg | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 bird | case |
| 21 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 find | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold out | past | woman | basket | to the queen | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | woman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | find | future | you | a bird's egg | the basket | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Topic |
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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