The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 51
It was cut from the centre of a seven-year-old cherry tree!’
What happens: cut · To what, where: tone, centre
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cut | aux:pass |
| 3 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 centre | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 centre | det |
| 6 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 tree | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 9 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 year | nummod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 seven | punct |
| 11 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 old | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 year | punct |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tree | amod |
| 14 | cherry | cherry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tree | compound |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 centre | nmod |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 cut | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | past · passive | tone | the centre of a old cherry tree | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from centre=Material |
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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