The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 9
He stooped down and pulled out a large box, filled quite full with shining gold pieces.
Who acts: husband · What happens: stoop down, pull out, fill, shine · To what, where: large box, 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 (husband), 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 stooped | nsubj |
| 2 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 stooped | compound:prt |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 pulled | cc |
| 5 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 stooped | conj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 pulled | compound:prt |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 box | det |
| 8 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 box | amod |
| 9 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pulled | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 filled | punct |
| 11 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 box | acl |
| 12 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 13 full | advmod |
| 13 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 filled | xcomp |
| 14 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 15 shining | mark |
| 15 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 full | advcl |
| 16 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pieces | compound |
| 17 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 shining | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stooped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stoop down | past | husband | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pull out | participle | husband not said here | a large box | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fill | participle | a large box not said here | full property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | shine | gerund | gold pieces | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent piece=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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