The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 106
From this moment Elsa’s life was that of the ordinary happy child, who has been rocked to sleep in her babyhood in a lovely golden cradle.
What happens: be, rock, sleep · To what, where: ordinary happy child, babyhood
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: 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | Elsa | Elsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 life | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Elsa | case |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 moment | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 child | cop |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 child | mark |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 child | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 child | det |
| 11 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 child | amod |
| 12 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 child | amod |
| 13 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 life | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rocked | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 rocked | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 rocked | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 rocked | aux:pass |
| 18 | rocked | rock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 child | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 sleep | mark |
| 20 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 rocked | advcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 babyhood | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 babyhood | nmod:poss |
| 23 | babyhood | babyhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sleep | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 cradle | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 cradle | det |
| 26 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 cradle | amod |
| 27 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 cradle | amod |
| 28 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sleep | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 moment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | of the ordinary happy child | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | rock | present · perfect · passive | the ordinary happy child | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sleep | to-infinitive | lady's babyhood | in a lovely golden cradle | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in babyhood=Location |
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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