The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 2
Greatly he loved races, and sore was his heart to think that one should be run without his seeing it, so when he beheld a woman whom he did not know coming along the street, hope sprang up in him.
Who acts: stranger, sore, hope · What happens: love, be, think, run, see, behold · To what, where: races, heart, one, race, woman, street · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger, sore, hope), 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 | Greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 3 loved | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 loved | nsubj |
| 3 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | races | race | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 loved | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 heart | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 heart | cc |
| 7 | sore | sore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heart | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 heart | cop |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 heart | nmod:poss |
| 10 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 loved | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 think | mark |
| 12 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 heart | acl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 run | mark |
| 14 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 run | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 run | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 run | aux:pass |
| 17 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 think | ccomp |
| 18 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 20 seeing | mark |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 seeing | nsubj |
| 20 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 run | advcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 seeing | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 beheld | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 beheld | advmod |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 beheld | advmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 beheld | nsubj |
| 26 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 loved | parataxis |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 woman | det |
| 28 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 beheld | obj |
| 29 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 know | obj |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 know | nsubj |
| 31 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 know | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 know | advmod |
| 33 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 woman | acl:relcl |
| 34 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 know | xcomp |
| 35 | along | along | ADP | _ | 37 street | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 street | det |
| 37 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 coming | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 sprang | punct |
| 39 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 sprang | nsubj |
| 40 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 beheld | conj |
| 41 | up | up | ADP | _ | 40 sprang | compound:prt |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 him | case |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 sprang | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | stranger | races | greatly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer race=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is a | past | sore | stranger's heart | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | stranger not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | run | should · passive | one | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||||
| 5 | see | gerund | stranger | race | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | behold | past | stranger | a woman | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | not know | past · do-support | stranger | a woman | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | come | gerund | stranger not said here | the street | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along street=Initial_Location | ||||
| 9 | spring up | past | hope | in stranger | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in he=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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