The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 13
No, it was over the river he rode, and across the hill and past the cottage of Miguel the vine-keeper, whose daughter, they say, is the prettiest girl in the whole country side, though she is too white for my taste,’ and then the landlady paused again, and glanced up at the farmer, to see how he was taking it.
Who acts: way, river, keeper, Daughter, landlady, my · What happens: be, ride, say, pause, glance up, see · To what, where: river, vine keeper, prettiest girl, hill, way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, river, keeper, Daughter), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 river | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 river | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 river | cop |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 river | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 river | det |
| 7 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rode | nsubj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 rode | nsubj |
| 9 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 girl | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 girl | cc |
| 12 | across | across | ADP | _ | 14 hill | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hill | det |
| 14 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 girl | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cottage | cc |
| 16 | past | past | ADP | _ | 18 cottage | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cottage | det |
| 18 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hill | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Miguel | case |
| 20 | Miguel | Miguel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 cottage | nmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 keeper | det |
| 22 | vine | vine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 keeper | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 vine | punct |
| 24 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hill | appos |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 daughter | punct |
| 26 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 27 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 27 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 keeper | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 say | punct |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 say | nsubj |
| 30 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 keeper | acl:relcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hill | punct |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 girl | cop |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 girl | det |
| 34 | prettiest | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 35 girl | amod |
| 35 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rode | obl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 side | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 side | det |
| 38 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 side | amod |
| 39 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 side | compound |
| 40 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 girl | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 white | punct |
| 42 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 46 white | mark |
| 43 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 white | nsubj |
| 44 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 white | cop |
| 45 | too | too | ADV | _ | 46 white | advmod |
| 46 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rode | conj |
| 47 | for | for | ADP | _ | 49 taste | case |
| 48 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 taste | nmod:poss |
| 49 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 white | obl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rode | punct |
| 51 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 rode | punct |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 paused | cc |
| 53 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 56 paused | advmod |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 landlady | det |
| 55 | landlady | landlady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 paused | nsubj |
| 56 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 rode | conj |
| 57 | again | again | ADV | _ | 56 paused | advmod |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 glanced | punct |
| 59 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 60 glanced | cc |
| 60 | glanced | glance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 rode | parataxis |
| 61 | up | up | ADP | _ | 60 glanced | compound:prt |
| 62 | at | at | ADP | _ | 64 farmer | case |
| 63 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 64 farmer | det |
| 64 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 glanced | obl |
| 65 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 67 see | punct |
| 66 | to | to | PART | _ | 67 see | mark |
| 67 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 60 glanced | conj |
| 68 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 71 taking | advmod |
| 69 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 71 taking | nsubj |
| 70 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 71 taking | aux |
| 71 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 67 see | ccomp |
| 72 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 71 taking | obj |
| 73 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | way | the river | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ride | past | the river | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | keeper | the vine keeper and the vine keeper and the vine keeper's daughter's daughter not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent keeper=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the prettiest girl | the hill and the cottage of Miguel | in the whole country side | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is | present | Daughter | for my taste; white property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | pause | past | the landlady | then; again | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | glance up | past | at the farmer | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at farmer=Theme | |||||
| 8 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 9 | take | past · progressive | landlady | way | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 10 | taste | my | nom taste «cognition 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 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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