The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 61
She hated her step-children, and the king, seeing this, kept them out of the way, under the care of Dotterine’s old nurse.
Who acts: queen, old nurse · What happens: hate, see, keep, care · To what, where: step children, this, children, way
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, old nurse), 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 hated | nsubj |
| 2 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 children | nmod:poss |
| 4 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 children | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 step | punct |
| 6 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hated | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 king | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 king | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hated | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seeing | punct |
| 12 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 hated | advcl |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 seeing | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kept | punct |
| 15 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hated | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 kept | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 way | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 way | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 way | det |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kept | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 care | punct |
| 22 | under | under | ADP | _ | 24 care | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 care | det |
| 24 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kept | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 nurse | case |
| 26 | Dotterine | Dotterine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 nurse | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 Dotterine | case |
| 28 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 nurse | amod |
| 29 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 care | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | past | queen | queen's step children | the king obl | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | see | gerund | queen not said here | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | keep | past | queen not said here | children = child | the way | under the care of Dotterine's old nurse | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme out way=Location | ||
| 4 | care | Dotterine's old nurse | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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