The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 18
When these were opened, every shell was found to contain a large and beautiful pearl.
Who acts: shell · What happens: open, find, contain · To what, where: these, shell, large pearl
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shell), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 opened | advmod |
| 2 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | aux:pass |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 shell | det |
| 7 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | aux:pass |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 opened | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 contain | mark |
| 11 | contain | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 found | xcomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 pearl | det |
| 13 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 pearl | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 beautiful | cc |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 large | conj |
| 16 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 contain | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past · passive | these | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past · passive | every shell | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | contain | to-infinitive | every shell not said here | a large pearl | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot pearl=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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