The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 64
Then she rose and lifted the lid of an iron-bound chest, and took out of it a very tiny flute.
Who acts: kingdom · What happens: rise, lift, bind, take out · To what, where: lid, chest
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kingdom), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 rose | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 lifted | cc |
| 5 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lid | det |
| 7 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lifted | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 chest | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 chest | det |
| 10 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bound | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 iron | punct |
| 12 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 chest | amod |
| 13 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lid | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 took | cc |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | obl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 flute | det |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 tiny | advmod |
| 22 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 flute | amod |
| 23 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | kingdom | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lift | past | kingdom not said here | the lid of a bound chest | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bind | participle | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | take out | past | kingdom not said here | chest | tree rules |
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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