The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 57
Two drops of water were glistening on the cloak, and these the girl shook on the ground.
Who acts: Two drops, girl · What happens: glisten, shake · To what, where: cloak, ground
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 (Two drops, girl), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 drops | nummod |
| 2 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 glistening | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 water | case |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drops | nmod |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 glistening | aux |
| 6 | glistening | glisten | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 cloak | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cloak | det |
| 9 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 glistening | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shook | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shook | cc |
| 12 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 girl | det |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shook | nsubj |
| 15 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 glistening | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 ground | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ground | det |
| 18 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shook | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 glistening | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glisten | past · progressive | Two drops of water | the cloak | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on cloak=Location | ||||
| 2 | shake | past | this girl | the ground | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Location |
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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