The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 64
By daybreak the empress had determined how to get rid of the beds.
Who acts: daybreak · What happens: determine, get · To what, where: empress
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 (daybreak), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 daybreak | case |
| 2 | daybreak | daybreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 determined | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 empress | det |
| 4 | empress | empress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 determined | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 determined | aux |
| 6 | determined | determine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 get | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 determined | xcomp |
| 10 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 get | xcomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 beds | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beds | det |
| 13 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rid | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | past · perfect · passive | daybreak | the empress | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | daybreak not said here | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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