The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 39

In course of time, this came also, and the queen took the little girl out of the basket, and placed it with her son in a golden cradle which glittered with precious stones.

Who acts: this, queen, golden cradle · What happens: come, take, place, glitter · To what, where: little girl, basket, golden cradle

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 (this, queen, golden cradle), 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	In	in	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 time	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 In	fixed
3	of	of	ADP	_	1 In	fixed
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	also	also	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 took	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 queen	det
12	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	nsubj
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 girl	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 girl	amod
16	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
17	out	out	ADP	_	20 basket	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 basket	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 basket	det
20	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 placed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 placed	cc
23	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 placed	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 son	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 son	nmod:poss
27	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 placed	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 cradle	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 cradle	det
30	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 cradle	amod
31	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 placed	obl
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 glittered	nsubj
33	glittered	glitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 cradle	acl:relcl
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 stones	case
35	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 stones	amod
36	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 glittered	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	this			time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	past	the queen	the little girl	the basket			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent girl=Theme out basket=Initial_Location
3	place	past	this not said here	basket	a golden cradle		with queen's son	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in cradle=Destination
4	glitter	past	a golden cradle				with precious stones	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with stone=Theme

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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