The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 31
The merchants picked up the child, wrapped it up carefully, and drove on.
Who acts: merchants · What happens: pick up, wrap up, drive · To what, where: child, meadow
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 (merchants), 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 | 2 merchants | det |
| 2 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wrapped | nsubj |
| 3 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 merchants | acl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 picked | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 picked | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 merchants | punct |
| 8 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 wrapped | obj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 wrapped | compound:prt |
| 11 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 8 wrapped | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 drove | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 drove | cc |
| 14 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wrapped | parataxis |
| 15 | on | on | ADV | _ | 14 drove | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 wrapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | participle | the merchants not said here | the child | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic | ||||
| 2 | wrap up | past | the merchants | meadow | carefully property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | drive | past | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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