The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 11
Though darkness was coming on, Peronnik never thought of entering the farm, but followed the road which led to the court of the duke of Brittany.
Who acts: darkness, Peronnik, road · What happens: come on, not think, enter, follow, lead · To what, where: farm, road
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (darkness, Peronnik, road), 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 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 4 coming | mark |
| 2 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coming | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 coming | aux |
| 4 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 thought | advcl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 coming | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 coming | punct |
| 7 | Peronnik | Peronnik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 thought | advmod |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 entering | mark |
| 11 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 thought | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 farm | det |
| 13 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 entering | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 followed | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 followed | cc |
| 16 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thought | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 road | det |
| 18 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 followed | obj |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 led | nsubj |
| 20 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 road | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 court | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 court | det |
| 23 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 led | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 duke | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 duke | det |
| 26 | duke | duke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 court | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Brittany | case |
| 28 | Brittany | Brittany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 duke | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come on | past · progressive | darkness | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not think speech: other | past | Peronnik | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | enter | gerund | Peronnik not said here | the farm | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme farm=Destination | ||||
| 4 | follow | past | Peronnik not said here | the road | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lead | past | the road | to the court of the duke of Brittany | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to court=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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