The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 17
There was none to be got by staying where she was, so she made her clothes into a bundle, and walked over the hills till she reached the house of the man who owned the fields in that part of the country.
Who acts: none, girl, man · What happens: be, get, stay, make, walk, reach · To what, where: clothes, bundle, hills, house, fields, part
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (none, girl, man), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 2 was | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 got | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 got | aux:pass |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 none | acl |
| 7 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 staying | mark |
| 8 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 got | advcl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 was | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 was | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 staying | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 made | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 made | nsubj |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 15 made | obj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 bundle | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bundle | det |
| 20 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 walked | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 walked | cc |
| 23 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 made | conj |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 hills | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hills | det |
| 26 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 walked | obl |
| 27 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 29 reached | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 reached | nsubj |
| 29 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 walked | advcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 house | det |
| 31 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 reached | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 man | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 man | det |
| 34 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 house | nmod |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 owned | nsubj |
| 36 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 man | acl:relcl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 fields | det |
| 38 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 owned | obj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 part | case |
| 40 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 part | det |
| 41 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 owned | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 country | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 country | det |
| 44 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 part | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | none | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive · passive | none not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING» | |||||
| 3 | stay | gerund | none not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be | past | girl | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | make | past | girl | girl's clothes | a bundle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent clothes=Material into bundle=Product | |||
| 6 | walk | past | girl not said here | the hills | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | reach | past | girl | the house of the man | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 8 | own | past | the man | the fields | that part of the country | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot field=Theme |
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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