The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 69
But she reached the altar in safety, and found the vase of holy water standing on it.
Who acts: princess · What happens: reach, find, stand · To what, where: altar, safety, vase, water
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 reached | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 altar | det |
| 5 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 safety | case |
| 7 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 found | cc |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reached | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 vase | det |
| 12 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 14 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 water | amod |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 vase | nmod |
| 16 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 found | advcl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 standing | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | princess | the altar | safety | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent altar=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | past | princess not said here | the vase of holy water | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vase=Topic | ||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | princess not said here | water | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location |
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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