The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 69
Now I was free to go and see her often under the pretence of seeing how the work was going on, and one day, when her mother had gone to the town, I ventured to throw off my disguise, and tell her of my love.
Who acts: I, pretence, work, mother, my · What happens: be, go, see, go on, venture, throw off · To what, where: maiden, pretence, town, disguise · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, pretence, work, mother), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 free | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 free | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 free | cop |
| 4 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 free | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 see | cc |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | conj |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 see | obj |
| 10 | often | often | ADV | _ | 13 pretence | advmod |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 pretence | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pretence | det |
| 13 | pretence | pretence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obl |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 seeing | mark |
| 15 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 pretence | acl |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 going | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 work | det |
| 18 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 going | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 going | aux |
| 20 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 seeing | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 going | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 ventured | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 ventured | cc |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 day | nummod |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 ventured | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 gone | punct |
| 27 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 31 gone | mark |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 mother | nmod:poss |
| 29 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 gone | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 gone | aux |
| 31 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 day | acl:relcl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 town | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 town | det |
| 34 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 gone | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 day | punct |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 ventured | nsubj |
| 37 | ventured | venture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 free | conj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 throw | mark |
| 39 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 ventured | xcomp |
| 40 | off | off | ADP | _ | 39 throw | compound:prt |
| 41 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 disguise | nmod:poss |
| 42 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 throw | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 tell | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 tell | cc |
| 45 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 free | parataxis |
| 46 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 tell | iobj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 love | case |
| 48 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 love | nmod:poss |
| 49 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 tell | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 free | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | now | free property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | I not said here | maiden | the pretence | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | see | gerund | the pretence not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | go on | past · progressive | the work | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | go | past · perfect | maiden's mother | the town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | venture | past | I | day | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 8 | throw off | to-infinitive | I not said here | my disguise | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disguise=Theme | ||||
| 9 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | maiden | of my love | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 10 | love | my | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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