The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 117
And when the egg shakes the city quakes, and when the egg shall be broken the city shall be destroyed.
Who acts: egg · What happens: shake, break, destroy · To what, where: city quakes, egg, city
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (egg), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 shakes | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 shakes | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 egg | det |
| 4 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shakes | nsubj |
| 5 | shakes | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 quakes | det |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 quakes | compound |
| 8 | quakes | quake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shakes | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 broken | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 broken | cc |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 broken | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 egg | det |
| 13 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 broken | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 broken | aux:pass |
| 16 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 shakes | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 city | det |
| 18 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 destroyed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 destroyed | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 21 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 broken | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shakes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | present | the egg | the city quakes | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent quake=Patient | ||||
| 2 | break | shall · passive | the egg | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | destroy | shall · passive | the city | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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