The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 3
Anna, the eldest, was so beautiful that when she took the sheep to pasture they forgot to eat as long as she was walking with them.
Who acts: Anna, Laptitza · What happens: be, take, pasture, forget, not eat, walk · To what, where: sheep
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 (Anna, Laptitza), 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 | Anna | Anna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 beautiful | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 eldest | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 eldest | det |
| 4 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 1 Anna | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Anna | punct |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 beautiful | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 beautiful | advmod |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 took | mark |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 took | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 took | nsubj |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 beautiful | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sheep | det |
| 14 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 took | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 pasture | mark |
| 16 | pasture | pasture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 took | advcl |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 forgot | nsubj |
| 18 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 pasture | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 eat | mark |
| 20 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 forgot | xcomp |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 long | advmod |
| 22 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 eat | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 walking | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 walking | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 walking | aux |
| 26 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 long | advcl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 walking | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Anna | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Laptitza | the sheep | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument sheep=Destination | ||||
| 3 | pasture | to-infinitive | Laptitza not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | forget | past | Anna | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not eat | to-infinitive | Anna not said here | long property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | walk | past · progressive | Laptitza | with Anna | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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