The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 107
Seeing that the cloth was no farther advanced than it was the evening before, he inquired the reason.
Who acts: Guilbert, cloth · What happens: see, be, inquire · To what, where: reason · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Guilbert, cloth), 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 | Seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 inquired | advcl |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 advanced | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cloth | det |
| 4 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 advanced | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 advanced | cop |
| 6 | no | no | ADV | _ | 7 farther | advmod |
| 7 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 advanced | advmod |
| 8 | advanced | advanced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Seeing | ccomp |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 evening | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 evening | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 evening | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 evening | det |
| 13 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 advanced | obl |
| 14 | before | before | ADV | _ | 13 evening | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seeing | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 inquired | nsubj |
| 17 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 reason | det |
| 19 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 inquired | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | Guilbert not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the cloth | advanced, far property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | cloth | than the evening | before property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | inquire speech: other | past | Guilbert | the reason | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent reason=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 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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