The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 99
She remembered Aveline’s warning, and tried to turn her horse, but it stood as still as if it had been marble.
Who acts: Minette, warning, Aveline · What happens: remember, try, turn, stand, be, warn · To what, where: warning, horse
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 (Minette, warning, Aveline), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 remembered | nsubj |
| 2 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Aveline | Aveline | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 warning | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Aveline | case |
| 5 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 remembered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tried | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tried | cc |
| 8 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 remembered | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 turn | mark |
| 10 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tried | xcomp |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 horse | nmod:poss |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turn | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stood | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 stood | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stood | nsubj |
| 16 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 remembered | conj |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 still | advmod |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 stood | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 24 marble | case |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 as | fixed |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 marble | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 marble | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 marble | cop |
| 24 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stood | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | Minette | Aveline's warning | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent warning=Theme | ||||
| 2 | try | past | Minette not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | turn not said to happen | to-infinitive | Minette not said here | Minette's horse | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme horse=Result | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | warning | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | past · perfect | warning | as marble | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | warn | Aveline | nom warning «communication transitive»: 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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