The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 69

‘What old rubbish,’ said the child to herself, and, turning, threw the wing out of the open window.

Who acts: old rubbish · What happens: rubbish, say, turn, throw · To what, where: child, Dotterine, wing, open window · 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 (old rubbish), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 rubbish	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 rubbish	nsubj
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rubbish	amod
4	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rubbish	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 rubbish	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 child	det
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 herself	case
11	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 threw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 threw	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 turning	punct
15	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 threw	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 turning	punct
17	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wing	det
19	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 threw	obj
20	out	out	ADP	_	24 window	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 window	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 window	det
23	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 window	amod
24	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 threw	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	rubbish						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	old rubbish	the child	Dotterine		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Topic to herself=Recipient
3	turn	gerund					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	throw	past		the wing		the open window	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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