The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 1
‘Well, at any rate, I shall soon be there,’ she thought, and shaking the reins, tried to urge the horse to a gallop.
Who acts: I, she · What happens: be, think, shake, try, urge · To what, where: reins, horse · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 there | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 12 there | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rate | punct |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 rate | case |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 rate | det |
| 6 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Well | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 there | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 there | aux |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 there | advmod |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 there | cop |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 16 thought | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 thought | nsubj |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 there | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 tried | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 tried | cc |
| 19 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 tried | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 reins | det |
| 21 | reins | rein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 shaking | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 shaking | punct |
| 23 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 thought | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 urge | mark |
| 25 | urge | urge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 tried | xcomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 horse | det |
| 27 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 urge | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 gallop | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 gallop | det |
| 30 | gallop | gallop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 urge | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | shall | I | soon, there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | she | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shake | gerund | the reins | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rein=Patient | |||||
| 4 | try | past | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | urge not said to happen | to-infinitive | the horse | to a gallop | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient |
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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