The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 16
To his dying day Peronnik never knew whether these things were real or if he only imagined them, but he pulled down his knitted cap so as to cover his eyes, and trusted the colt to carry him down the right road.
Who acts: things, earth · What happens: die, not know, be, imagine, pull down, knit · To what, where: things, knitted cap, eyes, colt · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, earth), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 day | nmod:poss |
| 3 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knew | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | Peronnik | Peronnik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 day | appos |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 knew | advmod |
| 7 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 12 real | mark |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 things | det |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 real | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 real | cop |
| 12 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 knew | ccomp |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 imagined | cc |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 imagined | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 imagined | nsubj |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 imagined | advmod |
| 17 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 real | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 imagined | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pulled | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 pulled | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 pulled | nsubj |
| 22 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 knew | conj |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 pulled | compound:prt |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 cap | nmod:poss |
| 25 | knitted | knit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 cap | amod |
| 26 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pulled | obj |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 cover | advmod |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 cover | mark |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 cover | mark |
| 30 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 pulled | advcl |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 32 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 cover | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 trusted | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 trusted | cc |
| 35 | trusted | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 knew | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 colt | det |
| 37 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 trusted | obj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 carry | mark |
| 39 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 trusted | advcl |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 carry | obj |
| 41 | down | down | ADP | _ | 39 carry | compound:prt |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 road | det |
| 43 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 road | amod |
| 44 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 carry | obl:unmarked |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 2 | not know | past | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | this things | real property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | imagine a condition, not said to happen | past | earth | things = thing | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pull down | past | earth | earth's knitted cap | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Theme | ||||
| 6 | knit | participle | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | cover | to-infinitive | earth not said here | earth's eyes | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eye=Destination | ||||
| 8 | trust | past | the colt | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colt=Theme | |||||
| 9 | carry down | to-infinitive | colt | the right road obl:unmarked | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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