The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 31
And when the season came for the rice crop to be gathered the mortar was taken down from its shelf, and the grains placed in it for pounding, when, lo and behold! in a twinkling of an eye, they all turned into gold pieces.
Who acts: season, grains · What happens: come, gather, take down, place, pound, turn · To what, where: grains, twinkling, mortar, shelf, gold pieces
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (season, grains), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 turned | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 season | det |
| 4 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 turned | advcl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 crop | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 crop | det |
| 8 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crop | compound |
| 9 | crop | crop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 gathered | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 gathered | aux:pass |
| 12 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 came | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mortar | det |
| 14 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 taken | aux:pass |
| 16 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 gathered | ccomp |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 taken | compound:prt |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 shelf | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 shelf | nmod:poss |
| 20 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 taken | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 grains | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 grains | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 grains | det |
| 24 | grains | grain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | obl |
| 25 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 grains | acl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 placed | obl |
| 28 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 29 pounding | mark |
| 29 | pounding | pound | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 placed | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 when | punct |
| 31 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 came | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 33 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 5 came | discourse |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 behold | cc |
| 35 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 33 lo | conj |
| 36 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 33 lo | punct |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 twinkling | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 twinkling | det |
| 39 | twinkling | twinkling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 eye | case |
| 41 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 eye | det |
| 42 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 twinkling | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 44 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 turned | nsubj |
| 45 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 they | det |
| 46 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 47 | into | into | ADP | _ | 49 pieces | case |
| 48 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 pieces | compound |
| 49 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 turned | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 46 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the season | the grains | a twinkling of a eye | for the rice crop | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in twinkling=Location | ||
| 2 | gather | to-infinitive · passive | the season not said here | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take down | past · passive | the mortar | mortar's shelf | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | place | participle | the grains not said here | mortar | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in it=Destination | ||||
| 5 | pound | gerund | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | turn | past | grains = grain | gold pieces | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into piece=Trajectory |
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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