The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 37
Not many days after, the stepmother’s wish was fulfilled.
Who acts: stepmother · What happens: fulfil, wish · To what, where: wish
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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 days | amod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fulfilled | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | after | after | ADV | _ | 11 fulfilled | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fulfilled | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stepmother | det |
| 7 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wish | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 stepmother | case |
| 9 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fulfilled | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fulfilled | aux:pass |
| 11 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fulfilled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fulfil | past · passive | the stepmother's wish | day | after property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wish | the stepmother | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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