The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 64
The second witch waved the wand over the tiny chariot and ponies, and they were turned into a beautiful large carriage with prancing horses, and a coachman on the seat.
Who acts: second witch · What happens: wave, turn · To what, where: wand, tiny chariot, witches, beautiful large carriage
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second witch), 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 | 3 witch | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 witch | amod |
| 3 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waved | nsubj |
| 4 | waved | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wand | det |
| 6 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waved | obj |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 chariot | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chariot | det |
| 9 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 chariot | amod |
| 10 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waved | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ponies | cc |
| 12 | ponies | pony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 chariot | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 turned | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 turned | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 turned | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 turned | aux:pass |
| 17 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 waved | conj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 carriage | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 carriage | det |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 carriage | amod |
| 21 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 carriage | amod |
| 22 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turned | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 horses | case |
| 24 | prancing | prancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 horses | compound |
| 25 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 carriage | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 coachman | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 coachman | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 coachman | det |
| 29 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turned | obl |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 seat | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 seat | det |
| 32 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 coachman | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 waved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | past | the second witch | the wand | the tiny chariot and ponies | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wand=Patient | |||
| 2 | turn | past · passive | witches = witch | a beautiful large carriage with prancing horses | a coachman on the seat obl | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into carriage=Trajectory |
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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