The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 44
And more than that, it was even cut by an invisible hand, and made into a cake.
Who acts: invisible hand · What happens: cut, make · To what, where: more, cake
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 (invisible hand), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cut | cc |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | than | than | ADP | _ | 4 that | case |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 more | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 more | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cut | aux:pass |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 cut | advmod |
| 9 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hand | det |
| 12 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hand | amod |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cut | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 made | cc |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 cut | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 cake | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cake | det |
| 19 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | past · passive | a invisible hand | more | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | a invisible hand not said here | a cake | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into cake=Product |
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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