The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 26
Then I found you both here in my kingdom, and tried to meet you both as well as I could without frightening you.
Who acts: I · What happens: find, try, meet · To what, where: you, kingdom
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 found | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 found | obj |
| 5 | both | both | ADV | _ | 6 here | advmod |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 found | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 kingdom | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 9 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tried | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tried | cc |
| 12 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 meet | mark |
| 14 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 tried | xcomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 meet | obj |
| 16 | both | both | ADV | _ | 14 meet | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 14 meet | advmod |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 as | fixed |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 could | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 could | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 as | advcl |
| 22 | without | without | ADP | _ | 23 frightening | case |
| 23 | frightening | frightening | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 meet | obl |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 meet | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | I | you | my kingdom; here | then | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic | ||
| 2 | try | past | I not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | meet not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | without frightening; both property | tree rules |
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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