The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 5
A countless number of women and children were gathered round a huge fire, and some were seated on the ground, while others danced strange dances on the smooth grass.
Who acts: others · What happens: gather, seat, dance · To what, where: countless number, some, ground, strange dances, smooth grass
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 (others), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 number | det |
| 2 | countless | countless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 number | amod |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gathered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 women | case |
| 5 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 number | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 children | cc |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 women | conj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gathered | aux:pass |
| 9 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | round | round | ADP | _ | 13 fire | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fire | det |
| 12 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fire | amod |
| 13 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gathered | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seated | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 seated | cc |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 seated | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 seated | aux:pass |
| 18 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 gathered | parataxis |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 ground | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ground | det |
| 21 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seated | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 danced | punct |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 danced | mark |
| 24 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 danced | nsubj |
| 25 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 seated | conj |
| 26 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 dances | amod |
| 27 | dances | dance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 danced | obj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 grass | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 grass | det |
| 30 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 grass | amod |
| 31 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 danced | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past · passive | a countless number of women and children | round a huge fire | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seat | past · passive | some | the ground | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | ||||
| 3 | dance | past | others | strange dances | the smooth grass | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dance=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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