The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 64
Two more years slipped by, when one day during the king’s absence the stepmother found Dotterine sitting under a lime tree.
Who acts: Two more years, stepmother, Dotterine, king · What happens: slip by, find, sit, absent · To what, where: Dotterine, lime tree
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 (Two more years, stepmother, Dotterine, king), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 years | amod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 slipped | nsubj |
| 4 | slipped | slip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 slipped | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 found | punct |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 found | advmod |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 day | nummod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 found | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | during | during | ADP | _ | 14 absence | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 absence | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 king | case |
| 14 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 day | nmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stepmother | det |
| 16 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 found | nsubj |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 slipped | parataxis |
| 18 | Dotterine | Dotterine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 found | obj |
| 19 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 found | xcomp |
| 20 | under | under | ADP | _ | 23 tree | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 tree | det |
| 22 | lime | lime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tree | compound |
| 23 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sitting | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip by | participle | Two more years | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | find | past | the stepmother | Dotterine | day | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent dotterine=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 3 | sit | gerund | Dotterine not said here | a lime tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location | ||||
| 4 | absent | the king | nom absence «state 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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