The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 2
But every morning the fruit was gone, and the boughs were bare of blossom, without anyone being able to discover who was the thief.
Who acts: fruit, boughs, anyone · What happens: be, discover · To what, where: thief
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fruit, boughs, anyone), 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 | _ | 7 gone | cc |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gone | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fruit | det |
| 5 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gone | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gone | cop |
| 7 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bare | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bare | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boughs | det |
| 11 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bare | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 bare | cop |
| 13 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gone | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 blossom | case |
| 15 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bare | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 able | punct |
| 17 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 20 able | mark |
| 18 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 able | nsubj |
| 19 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 able | cop |
| 20 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gone | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 discover | mark |
| 22 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 able | xcomp |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 thief | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 thief | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 thief | det |
| 26 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 discover | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the fruit | morning | gone property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | the boughs | of blossom; bare property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | gerund | anyone | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | discover | to-infinitive | anyone not said here | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | the thief | tree rules |
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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