The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 9
Souci met the carriage which was bringing her home, and stopped to congratulate her on her escape, and to advise her to put on dry clothes.
Who acts: Souci, carriage · What happens: meet, bring, stop, congratulate, advise, put · To what, where: carriage, home, Souci, escape, dry clothes
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Souci, carriage), 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 | Souci | Souci | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 met | nsubj |
| 2 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 carriage | det |
| 4 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 met | obj |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 bringing | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bringing | aux |
| 7 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 carriage | acl:relcl |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 home | nmod:poss |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bringing | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stopped | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stopped | cc |
| 12 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 met | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 congratulate | mark |
| 14 | congratulate | congratulate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 stopped | xcomp |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 congratulate | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 escape | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 escape | nmod:poss |
| 18 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 congratulate | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 advise | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 advise | cc |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 advise | mark |
| 22 | advise | advise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 congratulate | conj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 advise | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 put | mark |
| 25 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 advise | xcomp |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 clothes | case |
| 27 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 clothes | amod |
| 28 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 25 put | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Souci | the carriage | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carriage=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | bring | past · progressive | the carriage | Souci's home | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent home=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stop | past | Souci not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | congratulate | to-infinitive | Souci not said here | Souci | Souci's escape | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 5 | advise speech: other | to-infinitive | Souci not said here | Souci | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | put not said to happen | to-infinitive | Souci not said here | dry clothes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination | ||||
| 7 | escape | Souci | nom escape «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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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