The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 82
The idiot rode up, and took off his cap more politely than ever, and asked if she did not wish to cross the river.
Who acts: idiot, face · What happens: ride up, take off, ask, not wish, cross · To what, where: cap, river
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 (idiot, face), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 idiot | det |
| 2 | idiot | idiot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 rode | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 took | cc |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | conj |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 took | compound:prt |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 cap | nmod:poss |
| 10 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 politely | advmod |
| 12 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 7 took | advmod |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 ever | case |
| 14 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 politely | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 asked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 asked | cc |
| 17 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | conj |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 wish | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 wish | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 wish | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 wish | advmod |
| 22 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 asked | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 cross | mark |
| 24 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 wish | xcomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 river | det |
| 26 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cross | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride up | past | the idiot | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take off | past | the idiot not said here | idiot's cap | politely property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Theme | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the idiot not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not wish a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | face | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | cross not said to happen | to-infinitive | face not said here | the river | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient |
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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