The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 62
The girls stepped in, Elsa very cautiously, for which she was much laughed at by her friend, who used the fish scales for a rudder.
Who acts: girls, friend · What happens: step in, laugh, use · To what, where: Elsa, girl, fish scales
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 (girls, friend), 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 | 2 girls | det |
| 2 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stepped | nsubj |
| 3 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 stepped | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Elsa | punct |
| 6 | Elsa | Elsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stepped | obl |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 cautiously | advmod |
| 8 | cautiously | cautiously | ADV | _ | 3 stepped | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 laughed | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 laughed | obl |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 laughed | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 laughed | aux:pass |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 15 laughed | advmod |
| 15 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stepped | parataxis |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 laughed | obl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 friend | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 friend | nmod:poss |
| 19 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 laughed | obl:agent |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 used | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 used | nsubj |
| 22 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 friend | acl:relcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 scales | det |
| 24 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 scales | compound |
| 25 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 used | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 rudder | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 rudder | det |
| 28 | rudder | rudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 used | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step in | past | the girls | Elsa | cautiously property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | laugh | past · passive | girl's friend | girl | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | use | past | girl's friend | the fish scales | for a rudder | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent scale=Theme for rudder=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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