The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 135
The stepmother’s daughter became the meanest sewing maid in the palace, the stepmother was tied to a wild horse, and every one knew and has never forgotten that whoever has a mind turned to wickedness is sure to end badly.
Who acts: daughter, meanest sewing maid, one, whoever, mind · What happens: become, sew, tie, know, not forget, have · To what, where: meanest sewing maid, stepmother, mind, wickedness · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, meanest sewing maid, one, whoever), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stepmother | det |
| 2 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 stepmother | case |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 became | nsubj |
| 5 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 maid | det |
| 7 | meanest | mean | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 maid | amod |
| 8 | sewing | sew | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 maid | amod |
| 9 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 became | xcomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 palace | det |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 maid | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tied | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stepmother | det |
| 15 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 tied | aux:pass |
| 17 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 maid | acl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 horse | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 horse | det |
| 20 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 horse | amod |
| 21 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tied | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 knew | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 knew | cc |
| 24 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 one | det |
| 25 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 knew | nsubj |
| 26 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 became | advcl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 forgotten | cc |
| 28 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 forgotten | aux |
| 29 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 30 forgotten | advmod |
| 30 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 knew | ccomp |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 has | mark |
| 32 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 has | nsubj |
| 33 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 forgotten | ccomp |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 mind | det |
| 35 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 sure | nsubj |
| 36 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 mind | acl |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 wickedness | case |
| 38 | wickedness | wickedness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 turned | obl |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 sure | cop |
| 40 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 has | conj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 end | mark |
| 42 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 sure | xcomp |
| 43 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 42 end | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the stepmother's daughter | the meanest sewing maid in the palace | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sew | gerund | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | tie | past · passive | the meanest sewing maid in the palace not said here | the stepmother | to a wild horse | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to horse=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | know | past | every one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | not forget | present · perfect | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | have | present | whoever | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | turn | participle | a mind not said here | wickedness | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to wickedness=Trajectory | ||||
| 8 | is | present | a mind | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | end | to-infinitive | a mind not said here | badly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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