The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 70
The mussel shell and the fish scales were put back in the box, and the girls went in.
Who acts: girls · What happens: put back, go in · To what, where: mussel shell, box
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), 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 | 9 put | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 scales | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 scales | det |
| 6 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 scales | compound |
| 7 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shell | conj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 put | aux:pass |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 put | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 box | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 box | det |
| 13 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 girls | det |
| 17 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 put | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put back | past · passive | the mussel shell and the fish scales | the box | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in box=Destination | ||||
| 2 | go in | past | the girls | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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