The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 66
Her nurse was not there, but suddenly, as she stood weeping, her eyes fell upon the golden case in which lay the precious basket.
Who acts: nurse, eyes, golden case · What happens: not be, stand, weep, fall, lie · To what, where: golden case, precious basket
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, eyes, golden case), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 nurse | nmod:poss |
| 2 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 there | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 there | advmod |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 stood | cc |
| 8 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 12 stood | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 stood | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stood | nsubj |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | parataxis |
| 13 | weeping | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 stood | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fell | punct |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fell | nsubj |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stood | advcl |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 case | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 case | det |
| 20 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 case | amod |
| 21 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 lay | nsubj |
| 24 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 case | acl:relcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 basket | det |
| 26 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 basket | amod |
| 27 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lay | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Dotterine's nurse | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | nurse | suddenly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | weep | gerund | nurse not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fall | past | Dotterine's eyes | the golden case | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon case=Location | ||||
| 5 | lie | past | the golden case | the precious basket | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location basket=Theme |
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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