The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 92
She searched under each chestnut tree, turning every blade of grass with her bill--nothing to be seen, and evening was drawing on!
Who acts: life · What happens: search, turn, see, draw on, bill · To what, where: chestnut tree, blade
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: who acts (life), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 searched | nsubj |
| 2 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | under | under | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 tree | det |
| 5 | chestnut | chestnut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tree | compound |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 searched | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 turning | punct |
| 8 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 searched | advcl |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 blade | det |
| 10 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turning | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 grass | case |
| 12 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blade | nmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 bill | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 bill | nmod:poss |
| 15 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turning | obl |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 nothing | punct |
| 17 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 bill | appos |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 seen | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 seen | aux:pass |
| 20 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 nothing | acl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 drawing | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 drawing | cc |
| 23 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 drawing | compound |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 drawing | aux |
| 25 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 searched | parataxis |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 drawing | compound:prt |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 searched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | past | life | each chestnut tree | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location | ||||
| 2 | turn | gerund | life not said here | every blade of grass | with life's bill | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blade=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive · passive | life not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 4 | draw on | past · progressive | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | bill | life | nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=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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