The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 43

She took the little girl in her arms, and holding it up before the assembled company announced that henceforward it would be known by the name of Dotterine--a name which no one understood but the queen, who knew that the baby had come from the yolk of an egg.

Who acts: queen, holding, name, one, baby · What happens: take, hold up, assemble, announce, know, understand · To what, where: little girl, arms, veil, name, yolk, Dotterine · 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 (queen, holding, name, one), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 girl	amod
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 arms	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 arms	nmod:poss
8	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 announced	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 announced	cc
11	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 announced	csubj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 holding	obj
13	up	up	ADP	_	11 holding	compound:prt
14	before	before	ADP	_	17 company	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 company	det
16	assembled	assemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 company	amod
17	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 holding	obl
18	announced	announce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 known	mark
20	henceforward	henceforward	ADV	_	24 known	advmod
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 known	nsubj:pass
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 known	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 known	aux:pass
24	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 announced	ccomp
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 name	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 name	det
27	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 known	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Dotterine	case
29	Dotterine	Dotterine	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 name	nmod
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 name	punct
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 name	det
32	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Dotterine	appos
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 understood	obj
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 one	det
35	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 understood	nsubj
36	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 name	acl:relcl
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 queen	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 queen	det
39	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 name	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 knew	punct
41	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 knew	nsubj
42	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 queen	acl:relcl
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 come	mark
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 baby	det
45	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 come	nsubj
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 come	aux
47	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 knew	ccomp
48	from	from	ADP	_	50 yolk	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 yolk	det
50	yolk	yolk	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 come	obl
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 egg	case
52	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 egg	det
53	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 yolk	nmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	queen	the little girl	queen's arms			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent girl=Value in arm=Location
2	hold up	gerund		veil		before the assembled company		vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
3	assemble	participle						vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	announce speech: other	past	holding					vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	know	would · passive	the name of Dotterine but the queen	veil			henceforward property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus
6	understand	past	no one	a name				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
7	know	past	the queen					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	come	past · perfect	the baby		the yolk of a egg			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from yolk=Initial_Location
9	name			Dotterine				nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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