The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 20
The goddess Venus knew that he was coming, and went to meet him, bearing with her white bread and red wine.
Who acts: goddess, Venus · What happens: know, come, go, meet, bear · To what, where: Venus · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goddess, Venus), 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 goddess | det |
| 2 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | Venus | Venus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 coming | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 coming | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 coming | aux |
| 8 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 knew | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 knew | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 meet | mark |
| 13 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 went | xcomp |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 meet | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bearing | punct |
| 16 | bearing | bear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 went | advcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 bread | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 bread | nmod:poss |
| 19 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bread | amod |
| 20 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bearing | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 wine | cc |
| 22 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 wine | amod |
| 23 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bread | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the goddess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | come | past · progressive | Venus | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past | the goddess not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | meet | to-infinitive | the goddess not said here | Venus | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | bear | gerund | the goddess not said here | with goddess's white bread and red wine | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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