The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 85
Her former bridegroom rode over it a few days ago and heard her singing, but was no wiser than the rest.”
Who acts: former bridegroom · What happens: ride, hear, sing, not be · To what, where: thing, thrush
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (former bridegroom), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 bridegroom | nmod:poss |
| 2 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bridegroom | amod |
| 3 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | nsubj |
| 4 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rode | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 days | det |
| 8 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 days | amod |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 rode | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 heard | cc |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rode | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 heard | obj |
| 14 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 heard | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wiser | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 wiser | cc |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 wiser | cop |
| 18 | no | no | ADV | _ | 19 wiser | advmod |
| 19 | wiser | wise | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 rode | conj |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 rest | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 rest | det |
| 22 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wiser | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rode | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | thrush's former bridegroom | thing | ago property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over it=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | hear | past | thrush's former bridegroom not said here | thrush | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | thrush's former bridegroom not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not is | past | thrush's former bridegroom not said here | than the rest; wise property | tree rules |
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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