The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 67

She thought it might contain something to amuse her, and looked eagerly inside, but nothing was there save a handful of wool and two empty eggshells.

Who acts: Dotterine, basket, nothing · What happens: think, contain, amuse, look, be · To what, where: something, Dotterine · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Dotterine, basket, nothing), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 contain	nsubj
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 contain	aux
5	contain	contain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 contain	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 amuse	mark
8	amuse	amuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 something	acl
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 amuse	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 looked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 looked	cc
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
13	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	12 looked	advmod
14	inside	inside	ADV	_	12 looked	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 save	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 save	cc
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	20 save	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 save	cop
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 save	advmod
20	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 handful	det
22	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 save	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 wool	case
24	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 handful	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 eggshells	cc
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 eggshells	nummod
27	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 eggshells	amod
28	eggshells	eggshell	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 wool	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Dotterine				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	contain	might	basket	something			vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot something=Theme
3	amuse	to-infinitive	basket not said here	Dotterine			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
4	look	past				eagerly, inside property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	is	past	nothing		there	save property	tree rules

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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