The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 34
At this proof that the old woman had spoken truth, the queen’s heart bounded, for she now had fresh hopes that the rest of the prophecy might be fulfilled.
Who acts: proof, heart, woman · What happens: speak, bound, have, fulfil · To what, where: old woman, proof, fresh hopes, rest · 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 (proof, heart, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 proof | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 proof | det |
| 3 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bounded | obl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 spoken | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 spoken | aux |
| 9 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 proof | acl |
| 10 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spoken | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 proof | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 queen | det |
| 13 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heart | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 queen | case |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bounded | nsubj |
| 16 | bounded | bound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 had | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 had | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 had | nsubj |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 had | advmod |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 bounded | advcl |
| 22 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hopes | amod |
| 23 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 had | obj |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 fulfilled | obj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 rest | det |
| 26 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fulfilled | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 prophecy | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 prophecy | det |
| 29 | prophecy | prophecy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 rest | nmod |
| 30 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 fulfilled | aux |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 fulfilled | aux:pass |
| 32 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 hopes | acl:relcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 bounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · perfect · passive | this proof not said here | the old woman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bound | participle | the queen's heart | this proof | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at proof=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | have | past | woman | fresh hopes | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Patient | |||
| 4 | fulfil | might · passive | the rest of the prophecy | 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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