The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 119
And this wonderful stone contained not only food, but clothes and everything you could possibly want in the house.
Who acts: wonderful stone, clothes · What happens: contain, want · To what, where: food, house
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 (wonderful stone, clothes), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 contained | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 stone | det |
| 3 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stone | amod |
| 4 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 contained | nsubj |
| 5 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 food | advmod |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 food | advmod |
| 8 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 contained | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 want | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 want | cc |
| 11 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 17 want | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 everything | cc |
| 13 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 11 clothes | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 clothes | nmod |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 want | aux |
| 16 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 17 want | advmod |
| 17 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 contained | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 house | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 house | det |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 want | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 contained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | past | this wonderful stone | food | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot food=Theme | ||||
| 2 | want | could | clothes you | the house | possibly property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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