The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 31
Feeling a different being from the poor sad woman who had wandered into the garden so short a time before, she hastened to her room, and felt carefully in the basket for the egg.
Who acts: woman, different poor sad woman · What happens: feel, be, wander, hasten · To what, where: garden, room
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, different poor sad woman), 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 | Feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 hastened | advcl |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 3 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 woman | amod |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 woman | cop |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 woman | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 woman | amod |
| 8 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 woman | amod |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Feeling | obj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 wandered | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wandered | aux |
| 12 | wandered | wander | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 woman | acl:relcl |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 garden | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 garden | det |
| 15 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wandered | obl |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 short | advmod |
| 17 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 time | amod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 time | det |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wandered | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | before | before | ADV | _ | 12 wandered | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Feeling | punct |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 hastened | nsubj |
| 23 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 room | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 room | nmod:poss |
| 26 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hastened | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 felt | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 felt | cc |
| 29 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 hastened | conj |
| 30 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 29 felt | advmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 basket | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 basket | det |
| 33 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 felt | obl |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 egg | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 egg | det |
| 36 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 basket | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | gerund | woman not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | gerund | from a different poor sad woman | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wander | past · perfect | a different poor sad woman | the garden | time | before property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into garden=Destination | ||
| 4 | hasten | past | woman | woman's room | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to room=Destination | ||||
| 5 | feel | past | woman not said here | in the basket for the egg; carefully property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in basket=Attribute |
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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