The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 45
After the feast was over and the guests were going away, the godmother laid the baby in the cradle, and said to the queen, ‘Whenever the baby goes to sleep, be sure you lay the basket beside her, and leave the eggshells in it.
Who acts: feast, guests, godmother, baby, you · What happens: be, go away, lay, say, go, sleep · To what, where: baby, cradle, queen, basket, eggshells · 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 (feast, guests, godmother, baby), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 over | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 feast | det |
| 3 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 over | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 over | cop |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 15 laid | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 going | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 guests | det |
| 8 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 going | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 going | aux |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 over | conj |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 going | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 laid | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 godmother | det |
| 14 | godmother | godmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 laid | nsubj |
| 15 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 baby | det |
| 17 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 laid | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 cradle | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cradle | det |
| 20 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 laid | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 said | cc |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 laid | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 queen | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 queen | det |
| 26 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 said | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 goes | punct |
| 28 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 32 goes | punct |
| 29 | Whenever | whenever | SCONJ | _ | 32 goes | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 baby | det |
| 31 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 goes | nsubj |
| 32 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 said | conj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 sleep | mark |
| 34 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 goes | advcl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 sure | punct |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 sure | cop |
| 37 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 sleep | advcl |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 lay | nsubj |
| 39 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 sure | ccomp |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 basket | det |
| 41 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 lay | obj |
| 42 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 43 her | case |
| 43 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 lay | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 leave | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 leave | cc |
| 46 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 lay | conj |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 eggshells | det |
| 48 | eggshells | eggshell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 leave | obj |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 it | case |
| 50 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 leave | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the feast | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go away | past · progressive | the guests | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lay | past | the godmother | the baby | the cradle | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent baby=Theme in cradle=Destination | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to queen=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | go | present | the baby | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | sleep | to-infinitive | the baby not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is | infinitive | the baby not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | lay | present | you | the basket | beside queen | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent basket=Theme beside she=Destination | |||
| 9 | leave | infinitive | you not said here | the eggshells | baby | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eggshell=Theme in it=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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