The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 33
And the stepmother, who was watching, took them away, and dug a hole in the corner of the palace, under the windows of the emperor, and put them in it, while in their stead she placed two little puppies.
Who acts: stepmother · What happens: watch, take away, dig, put, place · To what, where: boys, hole, corner, palace, two little puppies, stead
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 (stepmother), 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 | _ | 9 took | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stepmother | det |
| 3 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 watching | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 watching | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 watching | aux |
| 7 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stepmother | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stepmother | punct |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | obj |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 took | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dug | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dug | cc |
| 14 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hole | det |
| 16 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dug | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 corner | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 corner | det |
| 19 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hole | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 palace | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 palace | det |
| 22 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 corner | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 windows | punct |
| 24 | under | under | ADP | _ | 26 windows | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 windows | det |
| 26 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 dug | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 emperor | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 emperor | det |
| 29 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 windows | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 put | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 put | cc |
| 32 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 took | conj |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 put | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 it | case |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 put | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 placed | punct |
| 37 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 42 placed | mark |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 stead | case |
| 39 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 stead | nmod:poss |
| 40 | stead | stead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 placed | obl |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 placed | nsubj |
| 42 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 43 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 45 puppies | nummod |
| 44 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 puppies | amod |
| 45 | puppies | puppy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 placed | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past · progressive | the stepmother | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take away | past | the stepmother | boys = boy | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | dig | past | the stepmother not said here | a hole | the corner of the palace | under the windows of the emperor | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hole=Theme under window=Location | ||
| 4 | put | infinitive | the stepmother not said here | boys = boy | palace | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in it=Destination | |||
| 5 | place | past | stepmother | two little puppies | boys's stead | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent puppy=Theme in stead=Destination |
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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