The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 5
The carriage was large and barred the narrow road, so Tephany was forced, much against her will, to remain where she was.
Who acts: carriage, Tephany · What happens: be, bar, force, remain · To what, where: narrow road, Tephany
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 (carriage, Tephany), 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 carriage | det |
| 2 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 large | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 large | cop |
| 4 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 barred | cc |
| 6 | barred | bar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 large | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 road | det |
| 8 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 road | amod |
| 9 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 barred | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 forced | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 forced | advmod |
| 12 | Tephany | Tephany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 forced | aux:pass |
| 14 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 large | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 much | punct |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 forced | advmod |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 19 will | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 will | nmod:poss |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 much | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 remain | punct |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 remain | mark |
| 22 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 forced | conj |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 was | advmod |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 was | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 remain | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 large | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the carriage | large property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bar | past | the carriage not said here | the narrow road | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer road=Theme | ||||
| 3 | force | past · passive | Tephany | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | remain | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | be | past | Tephany | vn exist-47.1 «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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