The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 68
So Kisika took the little box out of her pocket, with the piece of cloth lying in it, and dipped the cloth in the water, and lo! they were standing close to a splendid house in the middle of the garden.
Who acts: Kisika, piece, eyes · What happens: take, lie, dip, stand · To what, where: little box, pocket, song, cloth, water
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 (Kisika, piece, eyes), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | Kisika | Kisika | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 box | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 box | amod |
| 6 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 pocket | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 pocket | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 10 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl | ||
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 piece | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 piece | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 piece | det |
| 14 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 cloth | case |
| 16 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 piece | nmod |
| 17 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 piece | acl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lying | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dipped | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dipped | cc |
| 22 | dipped | dip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cloth | det |
| 24 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dipped | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 water | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 water | det |
| 27 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dipped | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 standing | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 standing | cc |
| 30 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 34 standing | discourse |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 30 lo | punct |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 standing | nsubj |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 standing | aux |
| 34 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 took | advcl |
| 35 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 standing | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 house | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 house | det |
| 38 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 house | amod |
| 39 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 standing | obl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 middle | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 middle | det |
| 42 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 house | nmod |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 garden | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 garden | det |
| 45 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 middle | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Kisika | the little box | Kisika's pocket | with the piece of cloth | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent box=Theme out pocket=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | lie | gerund | the piece of cloth not said here | song | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location | ||||
| 3 | dip | past | Kisika not said here | the cloth | the water | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme in water=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | stand | past · progressive | eyes = eye | to a splendid house in the middle of the garden; close property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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