The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 47
Then, kissing the baby three times, she mounted her coach and drove away.
Who acts: evil · What happens: kiss, mount, drive away · To what, where: baby, coach
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 (evil), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 mounted | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | kissing | kiss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 mounted | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 baby | det |
| 5 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kissing | obj |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 times | nummod |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kissing | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 kissing | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 mounted | nsubj |
| 10 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 coach | nmod:poss |
| 12 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mounted | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 drove | cc |
| 14 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 mounted | conj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 drove | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | gerund | evil not said here | the baby | time | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | mount | past | evil | evil's coach | then | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coach=Patient | |||
| 3 | drive away | past | evil not said here | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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