The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 63

On Dotterine’s tenth birthday her nurse handed her over the cradle, and repeated to her her mother’s dying words; but the child was too young to understand the value of such a gift, and at first thought little about it.

Who acts: nurse, child, mother · What happens: hand, repeat, die, be, understand, think · To what, where: queen, tenth birthday, value, little, gift

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 (nurse, child, mother), 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	On	on	ADP	_	5 birthday	case
2	Dotterine	Dotterine	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 birthday	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 Dotterine	case
4	tenth	tenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 birthday	amod
5	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 handed	obl
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 nurse	nmod:poss
7	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 handed	nsubj
8	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 handed	iobj
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 cradle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cradle	det
12	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 handed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 repeated	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 repeated	cc
15	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 handed	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	22 words	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mother	nmod:poss
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mother	nmod:poss
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 words	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 mother	case
21	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 words	amod
22	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 repeated	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 young	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 young	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 child	det
26	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 young	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 young	cop
28	too	too	ADV	_	29 young	advmod
29	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 handed	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 understand	mark
31	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 young	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 value	det
33	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 understand	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 gift	case
35	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	37 gift	det:predet
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 gift	det
37	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 value	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 thought	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 thought	cc
40	at	at	ADP	_	41 first	case
41	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	42 thought	obl
42	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 handed	conj
43	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 thought	obj
44	about	about	ADP	_	45 it	case
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 little	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 handed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hand	past	queen's nurse		queen	Dotterine's tenth birthday	over the cradle	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	repeat	participle	queen's nurse not said here				to queen's mother's dying words	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	die	gerund						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	is	past	the child				young property	tree rules
5	understand	to-infinitive	the child not said here	the value of such gift				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer value=Stimulus
6	think speech: other	past	queen's nurse not said here	little			about gift	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot little=Theme
7	word		queen's mother					nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent
8	value			such gift				nom value «cognition 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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