The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 113
When the cock crowed for the second time, a number of chairs appeared, and flew after the table; then wine, apples, and other fruit, all without trouble to anybody.
Who acts: cock, number · What happens: crow, appear, fly · To what, where: wine
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 (cock, number), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 crowed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cock | det |
| 3 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crowed | nsubj |
| 4 | crowed | crow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 appeared | advcl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crowed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 crowed | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 number | det |
| 11 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 appeared | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 chairs | case |
| 13 | chairs | chair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 number | nmod |
| 14 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 flew | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 flew | cc |
| 17 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 appeared | conj |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 table | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 table | det |
| 20 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flew | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 wine | punct |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 wine | advmod |
| 23 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 appeared | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 apples | punct |
| 25 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 wine | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 fruit | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 fruit | cc |
| 28 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 fruit | amod |
| 29 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wine | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 trouble | punct |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 trouble | det |
| 32 | without | without | ADP | _ | 33 trouble | case |
| 33 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wine | conj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 anybody | case |
| 35 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 33 trouble | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crow | past | the cock | time | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | a number of chairs | wine and apples and other fruit and all trouble to anybody | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fly | past | a number of chairs not said here | after the table | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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