The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 92
They only consisted of some boy’s clothes, a small quantity of linen and food, and a little money in case of necessity.
Who acts: preparations · What happens: consist · To what, where: little money
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (preparations), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 consisted | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 consisted | advmod |
| 3 | consisted | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 clothes | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 boy | det |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 boy | case |
| 8 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 consisted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 quantity | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 quantity | det |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 quantity | amod |
| 12 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 clothes | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 linen | case |
| 14 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 quantity | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 food | cc |
| 16 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 quantity | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 money | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 money | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 money | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 money | amod |
| 21 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 consisted | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 case | case |
| 23 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 money | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 necessity | case |
| 25 | necessity | necessity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 case | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 consisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consist | past | preparations = preparation | a little money in case of necessity | of some boy's clothes and a small quantity of linen and food | tree rules |
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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