The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 27
Mark counted out the money, wrapped the baby up in a fox skin, laid it in the sledge beside him, and drove back towards home.
Who acts: Mark · What happens: count out, wrap up, lay, drive back · To what, where: money, baby, fox skin, sledge, home
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mark), 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 | Mark | Mark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 counted | nsubj |
| 2 | counted | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 counted | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 money | det |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 counted | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wrapped | punct |
| 7 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 counted | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 baby | det |
| 9 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wrapped | obj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 wrapped | compound:prt |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 skin | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 skin | det |
| 13 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 skin | compound |
| 14 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wrapped | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 laid | punct |
| 16 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 counted | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 laid | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 sledge | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sledge | det |
| 20 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 laid | obl |
| 21 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 laid | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 drove | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 drove | cc |
| 25 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 counted | parataxis |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 drove | advmod |
| 27 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 28 home | case |
| 28 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 drove | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 counted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count out | past | Mark | the money | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wrap up | past | Mark not said here | the baby | a fox skin | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent baby=Theme in skin=Destination | |||
| 3 | lay | past | Mark not said here | baby | the sledge | beside Mark | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in sledge=Destination | ||
| 4 | drive back | past | home | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent towards home=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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