The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 33
As we were flying home over the sea one of the strings that held the bag of millet broke in two, and the sack dropped straight into the ocean.
Who acts: we, strings, one, sack · What happens: fly, hold, break, drop · To what, where: sea, bag, two, ocean
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, strings, one, sack), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 flying | mark |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 flying | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flying | aux |
| 4 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 one | csubj |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 flying | advmod |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flying | obl |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 broke | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 strings | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 strings | det |
| 12 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 held | nsubj |
| 14 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 strings | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bag | det |
| 16 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 held | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 millet | case |
| 18 | millet | millet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bag | nmod |
| 19 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 two | case |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 broke | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 dropped | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 dropped | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sack | det |
| 25 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dropped | nsubj |
| 26 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 broke | conj |
| 27 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 30 ocean | advmod |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 ocean | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 ocean | det |
| 30 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dropped | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past · progressive | we | the sea | home property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over sea=Location | |||
| 2 | hold | past | the strings | the bag of millet | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme | ||||
| 3 | break | past | one of the strings | two | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in two=Location | ||||
| 4 | drop | past | the sack | the ocean | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into ocean=Trajectory |
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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