The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 16
He then came to England, visited me, and found that I knew rather more about portraits of Queen Mary than he did.
Who acts: nymph, I · What happens: come, visit, find, know, do, portray · To what, where: England, me, more, Queen Mary · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nymph, I), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 England | case |
| 5 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 visited | punct |
| 7 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | advcl |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 visited | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 knew | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 knew | nsubj |
| 14 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 found | ccomp |
| 15 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 16 more | advmod |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 knew | obj |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 portraits | case |
| 18 | portraits | portrait | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 more | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Mary | case |
| 20 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Mary | compound |
| 21 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 portraits | nmod |
| 22 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 24 did | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 did | nsubj |
| 24 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 more | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | nymph | England | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to england=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | visit | past | nymph not said here | me | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | find | past | nymph not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | know | past | I | more | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | do | past | nymph | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | portray | Queen Mary | nom portrait «communication transitive»: of=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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