The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 68
Very much disappointed, she lifted the wool, and there lay the goose’s wing.
Who acts: Dotterine · What happens: lift, lie · To what, where: wool, wing
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), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADV | _ | 3 disappointed | advmod |
| 3 | disappointed | disappointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lifted | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lifted | nsubj |
| 6 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 disappointed | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wool | det |
| 8 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lifted | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lay | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lay | cc |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 lay | advmod |
| 12 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lifted | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 goose | det |
| 14 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wing | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 goose | case |
| 16 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 disappointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | Dotterine | the wool | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wool=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | Dotterine not said here | the goose's wing | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=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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