The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 96
When next you rode up to the cottage, it was empty, and none could inform you whither your bride had gone.
Who acts: next, cottage, none, bride · What happens: ride up, be, inform, go · To what, where: cottage, you
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next, cottage, none, bride), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 rode | advmod |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 rode | nsubj |
| 4 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 empty | advcl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 rode | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 cottage | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cottage | det |
| 8 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 rode | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 empty | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 empty | cop |
| 12 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 inform | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 inform | cc |
| 15 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 17 inform | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 inform | aux |
| 17 | inform | inform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 empty | parataxis |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 inform | iobj |
| 19 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 gone | advmod |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 bride | nmod:poss |
| 21 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gone | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 gone | aux |
| 23 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 inform | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 empty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride up | past | next | the cottage | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to cottage=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | is | past | cottage | empty property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | inform speech: other | could | none | you | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | go | past · perfect | your bride | whither property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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