The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 11
Cinderlad, however, did not trouble himself about what they said, but when evening drew near rambled away to the outlying field.
Who acts: Cinderlad, others · What happens: do, say, ramble away, outlie · To what, where: trouble, outlying field · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cinderlad, others), 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 | Cinderlad | Cinderlad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cinderlad | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 did | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 trouble | advmod |
| 7 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obj |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 7 trouble | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 what | case |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 did | obl |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rambled | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 rambled | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 rambled | advmod |
| 16 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rambled | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 rambled | aux |
| 18 | near | near | ADV | _ | 19 rambled | advmod |
| 19 | rambled | ramble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 did | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 rambled | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 field | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 field | det |
| 23 | outlying | outlie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 field | amod |
| 24 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rambled | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Cinderlad | trouble Cinderlad | however property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | others = other | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ramble away | past | Cinderlad not said here | the outlying field | evening | away, near property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to field=Destination | ||
| 4 | outlie | gerund | 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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