The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 9
None could hold me back, and after I had won many adventures in my own land, I bade farewell to my parents and set out to see the world.
Who acts: None, I · What happens: hold back, win, bade, set out, see · To what, where: me, many adventures, own land, world
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (None, I), 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 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 3 hold | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hold | aux |
| 3 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hold | obj |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 hold | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 won | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 won | cc |
| 8 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 11 won | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 won | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 won | aux |
| 11 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 hold | parataxis |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 adventures | amod |
| 13 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 won | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 land | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 land | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 land | amod |
| 17 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 adventures | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bade | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 bade | nsubj |
| 20 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 adventures | conj |
| 21 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 24 parents | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 parents | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 parents | nmod:poss |
| 24 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 adventures | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 set | cc |
| 26 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hold | conj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 set | compound:prt |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 see | mark |
| 29 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 set | advcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 world | det |
| 31 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 see | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold back | could | None | me | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | win | past · perfect | I | many adventures and bade and my parents | my own land | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | bade | I | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | set out | infinitive | None not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | None not said here | the world | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus |
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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