The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 85
But the woman had been fond of the Black Rogue, thief though he was, and she shrank from the Shifty Lad in horror, and set the people after him, and he had to fly to another part of the country where none knew of his doings.
Who acts: woman, Rogue, none · What happens: be, shrink, set, have, fly, know · To what, where: people
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 (woman, Rogue, none), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 fond | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fond | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fond | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 fond | cop |
| 6 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Rogue | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Rogue | det |
| 9 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Rogue | compound |
| 10 | Rogue | Rogue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 fond | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thief | punct |
| 12 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Rogue | appos |
| 13 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 15 was | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 was | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 thief | acl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 shrank | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 shrank | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 shrank | nsubj |
| 19 | shrank | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fond | conj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 Lad | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Lad | det |
| 22 | Shifty | shifty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Lad | amod |
| 23 | Lad | Lad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 shrank | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 horror | case |
| 25 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shrank | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 set | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 set | cc |
| 28 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 shrank | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 people | det |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 set | obj |
| 31 | after | after | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 set | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 had | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 had | cc |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 had | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fond | parataxis |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 fly | mark |
| 38 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 had | xcomp |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 part | case |
| 40 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 41 part | det |
| 41 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 fly | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 country | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 country | det |
| 44 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 part | nmod |
| 45 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 47 knew | advmod |
| 46 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 47 knew | nsubj |
| 47 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 country | acl:relcl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 doings | case |
| 49 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 doings | nmod:poss |
| 50 | doings | doing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 knew | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fond | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | the woman | of the Black Rogue; fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shrink | past | woman | in horror; from the Shifty Lad | vn flinch-40.5 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from lad=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | set | past | woman not said here | the people | after Rogue | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient people=Result | |||
| 4 | have | past | Rogue | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | fly | to-infinitive | Rogue not said here | to another part of the country result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to part=Result | ||||
| 6 | know | past | none | of Rogue's doings | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of doing=Stimulus |
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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