The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 3, sentence 17
And when they went back again the coach went quicker still, so that most of them did not know how they got back to the palace at all.
Who acts: brother, coach, most · What happens: go back, go, not know, get back · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, coach, most), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | advcl |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 coach | det |
| 8 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | quicker | quick | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 still | advmod |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 know | punct |
| 13 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 20 know | mark |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 so | fixed |
| 15 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 know | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 most | nmod |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 know | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 know | advmod |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 went | conj |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 got | advmod |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 got | nsubj |
| 23 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 know | ccomp |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 got | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 palace | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 palace | det |
| 27 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 got | obl |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 all | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 palace | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | brother | again | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the coach | still | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | most of brother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | get back | past | brother | to the palace at all result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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