The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 132
He did not even come to say good-bye to her, but, all the same, she knew the day and hour of his departure, and hid herself on the road to see him once more.
Who acts: Guilbert, pride · What happens: not come, say, know, hide, see, depart · To what, where: good bye, pride, road, Guilbert · 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, pride), 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 | 5 come | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 come | advmod |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 say | mark |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 come | xcomp |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bye | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 good | punct |
| 10 | bye | bye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 say | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 say | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 same | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 same | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 but | punct |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 same | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 same | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 come | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 knew | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 knew | nsubj |
| 21 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 same | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 day | det |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 knew | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 hour | cc |
| 25 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 day | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 departure | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 departure | nmod:poss |
| 28 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 day | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 hid | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 hid | cc |
| 31 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 knew | conj |
| 32 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 hid | obj |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 road | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 road | det |
| 35 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hid | obl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 see | mark |
| 37 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 hid | advcl |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 see | obj |
| 39 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 40 more | advmod |
| 40 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 37 see | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come | past · do-support | Guilbert | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | Guilbert not said here | good bye | pride | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bye=Topic to she=Recipient | |||
| 3 | know | past | pride | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | hide | past | pride not said here | pride | the road | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient on road=Location | |||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | pride not said here | Guilbert | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | depart | Guilbert | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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