The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 11
He had not gone far when he met his lady-friend Ladder, leaning on her wall.
Who acts: Drakestail · What happens: not go, meet, lean · To what, where: friend Ladder, wall
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, 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 (Drakestail), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 gone | advmod |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 gone | advmod |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 met | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 met | nsubj |
| 8 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 Ladder | nmod:poss |
| 10 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 friend | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 lady | punct |
| 12 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Ladder | compound |
| 13 | Ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 met | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 leaning | punct |
| 15 | leaning | lean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 met | advcl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 wall | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wall | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leaning | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | past · perfect | Drakestail | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | Drakestail | Drakestail's friend Ladder | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ladder=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | lean | gerund | Drakestail not said here | One's wall | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wall=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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