The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 87
So one morning Dotterine, who had had neither supper nor breakfast, and was feeling very hungry, let her wing fly away.
Who acts: one morning, you · What happens: have, feel, let · To what, where: supper, wing, Dotterine
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 (one morning, you), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 20 let | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 morning | nummod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 let | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Dotterine | Dotterine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 morning | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | aux |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 morning | parataxis |
| 9 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 supper | det |
| 10 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 breakfast | cc |
| 12 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 supper | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 feeling | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 feeling | cc |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 feeling | aux |
| 16 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 had | conj |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 hungry | advmod |
| 18 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 feeling | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 let | obj |
| 22 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 let | obj |
| 23 | fly | fly | ADV | _ | 24 away | advmod |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 let | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past · perfect | one morning | neither supper nor breakfast | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient | ||||
| 2 | feel | past · progressive | one morning not said here | hungry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | let | imperative | you not said here | wing | Dotterine | morning | away property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient 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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