The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 32

There it was, a tiny thing of soft blue with little green spots, and she took it out and kept it in her bosom, which was the warmest place she could think of.

Who acts: basket, woman, bosom · What happens: be, take out, keep, think, bosom · To what, where: basket, bosom, warmest place

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 (basket, woman, bosom), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 was	nsubj
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 blue	case
9	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 blue	amod
10	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	nmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 spots	case
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 spots	amod
13	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 spots	amod
14	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 blue	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 took	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 took	cc
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 took	nsubj
18	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 was	parataxis
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 took	obj
20	out	out	ADP	_	18 took	compound:prt
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 kept	cc
22	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 took	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 kept	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 bosom	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 bosom	nmod:poss
26	bosom	bosom	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 kept	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 place	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 place	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 place	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 place	det
31	warmest	warm	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 place	amod
32	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bosom	appos
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 think	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 think	aux
35	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 place	acl:relcl
36	of	of	ADP	_	35 think	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	basket		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take out	past	woman	basket		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	keep	past	woman not said here	basket	woman's bosom	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bosom=Location
4	is a	past	woman's bosom	the warmest place		tree rules
5	think speech: other	could	woman	the warmest place not said here		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot place=Theme
6	bosom		woman			nom bosom «state 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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