The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 76
So the Black Rogue was drawn up, and as soon as he was as high as the rope would allow him to go the Shifty Lad called to him:
Who acts: Rogue, rope · What happens: draw up, be, allow, go, call · To what, where: Black Rogue, Rogue, Shifty Lad, Lad · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rogue, rope), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 drawn | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Rogue | det |
| 3 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Rogue | compound |
| 4 | Rogue | Rogue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 drawn | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 drawn | aux:pass |
| 6 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 drawn | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 high | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 high | cc |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 soon | advmod |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 high | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 high | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 high | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 high | cop |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 high | advmod |
| 16 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 drawn | conj |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 allow | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 rope | det |
| 19 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 allow | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 allow | aux |
| 21 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 high | advcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 allow | iobj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 go | mark |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 allow | xcomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Lad | det |
| 26 | Shifty | shifty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Lad | amod |
| 27 | Lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 go | obj |
| 28 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 Lad | acl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 called | obl |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 drawn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw up | past · passive | the Black Rogue | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Rogue | high, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | allow | would | the rope | Rogue | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the rope not said here | the Shifty Lad | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lad=Theme | ||||
| 5 | call | participle | the Shifty Lad not said here | Lad | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
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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