The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 131
Not long after she learnt that Guilbert had left the country.
Who acts: pride, Guilbert · What happens: learn, leave · To what, where: country · 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 (pride, Guilbert), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 learnt | advmod |
| 3 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 learnt | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 learnt | nsubj |
| 5 | learnt | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 left | mark |
| 7 | Guilbert | Guilbert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 left | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 left | aux |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 learnt | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 country | det |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 left | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 learnt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | pride | long property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect | Guilbert | the country | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme |
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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