The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 40
The poor little babies had found no rest even in their graves.
What happens: find · To what, where: poor little babies, graves
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: 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 | 4 babies | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 babies | amod |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 babies | amod |
| 4 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 found | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | aux |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 rest | det |
| 8 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obj |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 graves | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 graves | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 graves | nmod:poss |
| 12 | graves | grave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 found | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · perfect · passive | the poor little babies | babies's graves | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme rest=Attribute |
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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