The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 62
But if they ever strayed across the path of the queen, she would kick them out of her sight like dogs.
Who acts: children, queen · What happens: stray, kick, sight · To what, where: path, children, sight
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 (children, queen), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 kick | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 strayed | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 strayed | nsubj |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 strayed | advmod |
| 5 | strayed | stray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 kick | advcl |
| 6 | across | across | ADP | _ | 8 path | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 path | det |
| 8 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 strayed | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 queen | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 queen | det |
| 11 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 path | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 strayed | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 kick | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 kick | aux |
| 15 | kick | kick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 kick | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 sight | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 sight | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 sight | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kick | obl |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 dogs | case |
| 22 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 kick | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 kick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stray a condition, not said to happen | past | children = child | the path of the queen | ever | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across path=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | kick | would | queen | children = child | queen's sight | like dogs | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient out sight=Location | ||
| 3 | sight | queen | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=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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