The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 152
This was the dwelling of the Goddess of Thunder, and when he drew rein at her door the goddess herself came out to meet him.
Who acts: This, Thunder, Jupiter · What happens: be, draw, come out, meet · To what, where: dwelling, rein, door, goddess, Thunder
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Thunder, Jupiter), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 dwelling | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dwelling | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dwelling | det |
| 4 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Goddess | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Goddess | det |
| 7 | Goddess | Goddess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dwelling | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Thunder | case |
| 9 | Thunder | Thunder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Goddess | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 goddess | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 goddess | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 drew | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 drew | nsubj |
| 14 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 goddess | csubj |
| 15 | rein | rein | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drew | obj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 door | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 door | nmod:poss |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drew | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 goddess | det |
| 20 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dwelling | appos |
| 21 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 goddess | acl:relcl |
| 23 | out | out | ADV | _ | 22 came | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 meet | mark |
| 25 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 came | advcl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 meet | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dwelling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | the dwelling | of the Goddess of Thunder | tree rules | |||
| 2 | draw | past | Thunder | rein | Jupiter's door | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rein=Theme | |||
| 3 | come out | past | Jupiter | the goddess not said here | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient goddess=Result | |||
| 4 | meet | to-infinitive | Jupiter not said here | Thunder | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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