The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 1
On the way she met a beautiful carriage with a young man seated in it.
Who acts: she · What happens: meet, seat · To what, where: beautiful carriage, way, young man, carriage
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (she), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 met | nsubj |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 carriage | det |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 carriage | amod |
| 8 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 man | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carriage | nmod |
| 13 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 man | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 seated | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | she | a beautiful carriage | the way | with a young man | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent carriage=Theme with man=Instrument | ||
| 2 | seat | participle | a young man not said here | carriage | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location |
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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