The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 8
‘Under rough bark lies smooth wood and sweet kernel,’ replied the old woman.
What happens: lie, reply · To what, where: smooth wood, rough bark, old woman
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: 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 | _ | 5 lies | punct |
| 2 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 4 bark | case |
| 3 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bark | amod |
| 4 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lies | obl |
| 5 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wood | amod |
| 7 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lies | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 kernel | cc |
| 9 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 kernel | amod |
| 10 | kernel | kernel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wood | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lies | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 woman | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 woman | amod |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | smooth wood and sweet kernel | rough bark | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wood=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the old woman | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent woman=Topic |
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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