The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 17
For two years Elsa suffered all this ill-treatment, when one day she went out with the other village children to pluck strawberries.
Who acts: Elsa · What happens: suffer, go out, pluck · To what, where: ill treatment, strawberries
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 (Elsa), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 suffered | obl |
| 4 | Elsa | Elsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 suffered | nsubj |
| 5 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 treatment | det:predet |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 treatment | det |
| 8 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 treatment | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 ill | punct |
| 10 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 suffered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 went | advmod |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 day | nummod |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 suffered | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 children | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 children | det |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 children | amod |
| 21 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 children | compound |
| 22 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 went | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 pluck | mark |
| 24 | pluck | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 went | advcl |
| 25 | strawberries | strawberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 pluck | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 suffered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffer | past | Elsa | all ill treatment | year | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer treatment=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | go out | past | Elsa | day | with the other village children; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with child=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | pluck | to-infinitive | Elsa not said here | strawberries | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strawberry=Patient |
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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