The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 65
She fell as usual into a passion, and beat the child so badly that Dotterine went staggering to her own room.
Who acts: stepmother, Dotterine · What happens: fall, beat, go, stagger · To what, where: passion, child
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 (stepmother, Dotterine), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg641:974): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
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 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 usual | case |
| 4 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fell | obl |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 passion | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 passion | det |
| 7 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fell | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 beat | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 beat | cc |
| 10 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fell | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 child | det |
| 12 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beat | obj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 badly | advmod |
| 14 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 beat | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 went | mark |
| 16 | Dotterine | Dotterine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 badly | advcl |
| 18 | staggering | stagger | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 went | xcomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 room | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 room | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 room | amod |
| 22 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | stepmother | into a passion result; as usual | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into passion=Result | ||||
| 2 | beat | past | stepmother not said here | the child | badly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location child=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | past | Dotterine | to Dotterine's own room | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | stagger | gerund | Dotterine not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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