The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 61
The mussel shell grew bigger and bigger, and turned into a pretty little boat, which would have held a dozen children.
Who acts: mussel shell · What happens: grow, turn, hold · To what, where: pretty little boat
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 (mussel shell), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shell | det |
| 2 | mussel | mussel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shell | compound |
| 3 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 grew | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bigger | cc |
| 7 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 bigger | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 turned | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 turned | cc |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 boat | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 boat | det |
| 13 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 boat | amod |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 boat | amod |
| 15 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 held | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 held | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 held | aux |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 held | aux |
| 20 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 boat | acl:relcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 dozen | det |
| 22 | dozen | dozen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 children | nummod |
| 23 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 held | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the mussel shell | big property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | the mussel shell not said here | a pretty little boat | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into boat=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | hold | would · perfect · passive | a pretty little boat | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme child=Eventuality |
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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