The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 100
By the time the sun rose the doll had attained her full size, and no one could have told one girl from the other.
Who acts: sun · What happens: rise, attain, tell · To what, where: doll, one, one girl, other · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | nsubj |
| 6 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 doll | det |
| 8 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 attained | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 attained | aux |
| 10 | attained | attain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 rose | ccomp |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 size | nmod:poss |
| 12 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 size | amod |
| 13 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 attained | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 told | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 told | cc |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 one | det |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 told | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 told | aux |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 told | aux |
| 20 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 rose | conj |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 girl | nummod |
| 22 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 told | iobj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 other | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 other | det |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 told | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the sun | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | attain | past · perfect · passive | the doll | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary size=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | could · perfect · passive | no one | one girl | the other | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient girl=Topic |
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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