The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 132
Nine years slipped away in this manner, when one day the lady called Elsa into her room.
Who acts: Nine years, lady · What happens: slip away, call · To what, where: room · 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 (Nine years, lady), 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 | Nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 slipped | nsubj |
| 3 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 slipped | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 manner | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 manner | det |
| 7 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slipped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 called | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 called | advmod |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 day | nummod |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 called | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lady | det |
| 13 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 called | nsubj |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 slipped | conj |
| 15 | Elsa | Elsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 called | xcomp |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 room | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 room | nmod:poss |
| 18 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 called | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip away | past | Nine years | in this manner; away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in manner=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | call | past | the lady | Elsa's room | day | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into room=Recipient |
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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