The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 37
During the night wolves had come and had eaten my bee.
Who acts: night wolves · What happens: come, eat · To what, where: bee
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 (night wolves), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 6 come | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wolves | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wolves | compound |
| 4 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 come | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | aux |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 eaten | cc |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 eaten | aux |
| 9 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 come | conj |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bee | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eaten | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | the night wolves | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | eat | past · perfect | the night wolves not said here | my bee | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bee=Patient |
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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