The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 60
Then the girl placed the mussel shell on the water and took the fish scales in her hand.
Who acts: girl · What happens: place, take · To what, where: mussel shell, water, fish scales, hand
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 placed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 placed | nsubj |
| 4 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shell | det |
| 6 | mussel | mussel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shell | compound |
| 7 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 placed | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 placed | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 took | cc |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 placed | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 scales | det |
| 14 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 scales | compound |
| 15 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 took | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 hand | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hand | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | the girl | the mussel shell | the water | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent shell=Theme on water=Destination | ||
| 2 | take | past | the girl not said here | the fish scales | girl's hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent scale=Value in hand=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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