The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 66
They swept the twigs away, dug up the earth, took out the pot, and drove home again with it.
Who acts: man · What happens: sweep away, dig up, take out, drive · To what, where: twigs, earth, pot
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 (man), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 swept | nsubj |
| 2 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 twigs | det |
| 4 | twigs | twig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 swept | obj |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 swept | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dug | punct |
| 7 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 swept | conj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 dug | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 earth | det |
| 10 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dug | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 swept | parataxis |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 took | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pot | det |
| 15 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 drove | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 drove | cc |
| 18 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 took | conj |
| 19 | home | home | ADV | _ | 18 drove | advmod |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 drove | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 drove | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sweep away | past | man | the twigs | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme twig=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | dig up | participle | man not said here | the earth | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent earth=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take out | past | the pot | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme | |||||
| 4 | drive | past | again | with pot; home property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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