The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 42
He put them carefully in a china vase, and carried it to the high road, Sitting down on a seat till the Daimio should pass.
Who acts: man, Daimio · What happens: put, carry, sit down, pass · To what, where: ashes, china vase, vase, high road, seat
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 (man, Daimio), 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 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 put | obj |
| 4 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 2 put | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 vase | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 vase | det |
| 7 | china | china | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 vase | compound |
| 8 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 carried | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 carried | cc |
| 11 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 carried | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 road | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 road | det |
| 15 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 road | amod |
| 16 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carried | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Sitting | punct |
| 18 | Sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 carried | advcl |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 18 Sitting | advmod |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 seat | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 seat | det |
| 22 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Sitting | obl |
| 23 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 27 pass | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Daimio | det |
| 25 | Daimio | Daimio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 pass | nsubj |
| 26 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 pass | aux |
| 27 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 seat | acl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | man | ashes = ash | a china vase | carefully property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in vase=Destination | ||
| 2 | carry | past | man not said here | vase | the high road | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to road=Destination | |||
| 3 | sit down | gerund | man not said here | a seat | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on seat=Location | |||
| 4 | pass | should | the Daimio | a seat not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme seat=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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