The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 56

‘Oh, I’ll soon show you,’ answered the girl, taking the lid from the box, and at the very bottom lay a scrap of a cloak, a mussel shell, and two fish scales.

Who acts: I · What happens: 'll, show, answer, take, lay · To what, where: you, girl, lid, box, scrap, bottom

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 (I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 show	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 ’ll	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 ’ll	nsubj
5	’ll	'll	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 show	reparandum
6	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 ’ll	advmod
7	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 show	iobj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 show	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 show	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 girl	det
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answered	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 taking	punct
15	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 answered	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lid	det
17	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 taking	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 box	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 box	det
20	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 taking	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lay	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 lay	cc
23	at	at	ADP	_	26 bottom	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bottom	det
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 bottom	advmod
26	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lay	obl
27	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 show	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 scrap	det
29	scrap	scrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lay	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 cloak	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 cloak	det
32	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 scrap	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 shell	punct
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 shell	det
35	mussel	mussel	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 shell	compound
36	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 scrap	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 scales	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 scales	cc
39	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 fish	nummod
40	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 scales	compound
41	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 lay	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 show	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	'll	present	I				soon property	tree rules
2	show	present			you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	answer speech: assert	past			the girl			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent girl=Eventuality
4	take	gerund		the lid		the box		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent lid=Theme from box=Initial_Location
5	lay	present		a scrap of a cloak and a mussel shell		the bottom	fish scales obl	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent scrap=Theme at bottom=Destination

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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