The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 23
Far in advance, Moti continued his wild career.
Who acts: Moti · What happens: continue · To what, where: wild career
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moti), 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 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 continued | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 advance | case |
| 3 | advance | advance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Far | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Far | punct |
| 5 | Moti | Moti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 continued | nsubj |
| 6 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 career | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 career | amod |
| 9 | career | career | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 continued | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | Moti | Moti's wild career | far property | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent career=Theme |
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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