The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 169

Next morning, when she got up, the lady placed a gold seal ring on her finger, strung a little golden box on a ribbon, and placed it round her neck; then she called the old man, and, forcing back her tears, took leave of Elsa.

Who acts: wife, lady · What happens: get up, place, string, call, force back, take · To what, where: seal ring, finger, little golden box, ribbon, box, old man · 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 (wife, 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 placed	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 morning	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 got	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 placed	advcl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 got	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lady	det
10	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 placed	nsubj
11	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 ring	det
13	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seal	compound
14	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ring	compound
15	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 placed	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 finger	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 finger	nmod:poss
18	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ring	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 strung	punct
20	strung	string	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 placed	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 box	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 box	amod
23	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 box	amod
24	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 strung	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 ribbon	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 ribbon	det
27	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 box	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 placed	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 placed	cc
30	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 placed	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 placed	obj
32	round	round	ADP	_	34 neck	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 neck	nmod:poss
34	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 placed	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 called	punct
36	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 called	advmod
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 called	nsubj
38	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 placed	parataxis
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 man	det
40	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 man	amod
41	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 called	xcomp
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 forcing	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 forcing	cc
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 forcing	punct
45	forcing	force	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 called	advcl
46	back	back	ADV	_	45 forcing	advmod
47	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 tears	nmod:poss
48	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 forcing	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 took	punct
50	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 called	conj
51	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 took	obj
52	of	of	ADP	_	53 Elsa	case
53	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 leave	nmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get up	past	wife					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	place	past	the lady	a seal ring	wife's finger	morning		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme on finger=Destination
3	string	past	the lady not said here	a little golden box	a ribbon			vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent box=Theme on ribbon=Destination
4	place	past	the lady not said here	box			round wife's neck	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	call	past	wife	the old man		then		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	force back	gerund	wife not said here	wife's tears				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Recipient
7	take	past	wife not said here	leave of Elsa				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=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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