The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 61
Sure enough, next day a magnificent pasty all wreathed round with flowers was placed on the table.
What happens: wreathe, place · To what, where: magnificent pasty, table
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Sure | sure | ADV | _ | 15 placed | advmod |
| 2 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 1 Sure | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sure | punct |
| 4 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 day | amod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 placed | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pasty | det |
| 7 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pasty | amod |
| 8 | pasty | pasty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 wreathed | advmod |
| 10 | wreathed | wreathe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 pasty | acl |
| 11 | round | round | ADV | _ | 10 wreathed | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 flowers | case |
| 13 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wreathed | obl |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 placed | aux:pass |
| 15 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 table | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 table | det |
| 18 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 placed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wreathe | participle | a magnificent pasty not said here | with flowers; all, round property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme | ||||
| 2 | place | past · passive | a magnificent pasty | the table | day | sure property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on table=Destination |
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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