The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 37

The next morning she went to look at it, and the first thing she saw was the broken eggshell, and a little doll lying among the pieces.

Who acts: woman, first thing, little doll · What happens: go, look, see, break, be, lie · To what, where: first thing, broken eggshell, pieces

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, first thing, little doll), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl:unmarked
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 look	mark
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 went	xcomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 look	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 eggshell	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 eggshell	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 thing	det
13	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 thing	amod
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eggshell	nsubj
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 thing	acl:relcl
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 eggshell	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 eggshell	det
19	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 eggshell	amod
20	eggshell	eggshell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 doll	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 doll	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 doll	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 doll	amod
25	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eggshell	conj
26	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 doll	acl
27	among	among	ADP	_	29 pieces	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 pieces	det
29	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 lying	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	woman			morning		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look	to-infinitive	woman not said here				at egg	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
3	see	past	woman	the first thing not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
4	break	participle						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	is a	past	the first thing	the broken eggshell and a little doll				tree rules
6	lie	gerund	a little doll not said here		the pieces			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among piece=Location

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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