The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 86
‘More than a hundred gentlemen have ridden past this house bent on the same errand, and not one has ever come back.’
Who acts: one · What happens: ride, bend, come back · To what, where: hundred gentlemen, house, same errand
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 ridden | punct |
| 2 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 5 hundred | advmod |
| 3 | than | than | ADP | _ | 2 More | fixed |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hundred | det |
| 5 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 gentlemen | nummod |
| 6 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ridden | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ridden | aux |
| 8 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | past | past | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ridden | obl |
| 12 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 house | acl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 errand | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 errand | det |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 errand | amod |
| 16 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bent | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 come | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 come | cc |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 one | advmod |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 come | nsubj |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 come | aux |
| 22 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 come | advmod |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ridden | conj |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 come | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ridden | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 ridden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | present · perfect · passive | hundred gentlemen | this house | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme past house=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | bend | participle | this house not said here | the same errand | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on errand=Location | ||||
| 3 | come back | present | one | ever | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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