The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 19
And when the rejoicings were over the news was in everybody’s mouth that Anna had sent for corn, and had made the loaf of which she had spoken at the strawberry beds.
Who acts: rejoicings, mouth · What happens: be, send, make, speak · To what, where: mouth, Anna, loaf, strawberry beds · 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 (rejoicings, mouth), 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 | _ | 2 when | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rejoicings | det |
| 4 | rejoicings | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 mouth | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 mouth | cop |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 mouth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 news | det |
| 8 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mouth | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 mouth | cop |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 mouth | case |
| 11 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 13 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 everybody | case |
| 13 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 when | nsubj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 sent | mark |
| 15 | Anna | Anna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sent | aux |
| 17 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 mouth | acl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 corn | case |
| 19 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sent | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 made | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 made | cc |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 made | aux |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 sent | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 loaf | det |
| 25 | loaf | loaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 made | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 which | case |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 spoken | obl |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 spoken | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 spoken | aux |
| 30 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 loaf | acl:relcl |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 beds | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 beds | det |
| 33 | strawberry | strawberry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 beds | compound |
| 34 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 spoken | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 when | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the rejoicings | everybody's mouth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send | past · perfect · passive | everybody's mouth not said here | Anna | for corn | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | make | past · perfect | everybody's mouth not said here | the loaf | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset loaf=Product | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past · perfect | mouth | the strawberry beds | of the loaf | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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