The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 13
He covered up the pot again with earth and twigs, and drove on into the town, where he bought a live pike and a live hare in the market.
Who acts: foot · What happens: cover up, drive, buy · To what, where: pot, town, live pike, market
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foot), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 covered | nsubj |
| 2 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 covered | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pot | det |
| 5 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 covered | obj |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 covered | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 earth | case |
| 8 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 covered | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 twigs | cc |
| 10 | twigs | twig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 earth | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 drove | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 drove | cc |
| 13 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 covered | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADV | _ | 13 drove | advmod |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 town | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 town | det |
| 17 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drove | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bought | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 bought | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bought | nsubj |
| 21 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 town | acl:relcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 pike | det |
| 23 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 pike | amod |
| 24 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bought | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 hare | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 hare | det |
| 27 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 hare | amod |
| 28 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pike | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 market | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 market | det |
| 31 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bought | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover up | past | foot | the pot | again | with earth and twigs | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent pot=Destination with earth=Theme | ||
| 2 | drive | past | foot not said here | the town | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into town=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | buy | past | foot | a live pike and a live hare | the market | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pike=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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