The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 44
And when they had drunk it all, and the cup was empty, a wonderful thing happened.
Who acts: cup, wonderful thing · What happens: drink, be, happen · To what, where: ceremonies
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 (cup, wonderful thing), 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 | _ | 5 drunk | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 drunk | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 drunk | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 drunk | aux |
| 5 | drunk | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 drunk | obj |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 it | det |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 empty | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 empty | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cup | det |
| 11 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 empty | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 empty | cop |
| 13 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 drunk | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 happened | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 thing | det |
| 16 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 thing | amod |
| 17 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 happened | nsubj |
| 18 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 empty | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drunk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past · perfect · passive | ceremonies = ceremony | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the cup | empty property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | happen | past | a wonderful thing | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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