The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 91

Then, bidding Dotterine follow her, she passed through the gates of the town, and through the army outside, and nobody stopped them, or seemed to see them.

Who acts: Dotterine, nobody · What happens: bid, follow, pass, stop, seem, see · To what, where: godmother, gates

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dotterine, nobody), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 bidding	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	bidding	bid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 passed	advcl
4	Dotterine	Dotterine	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 follow	nsubj
5	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bidding	xcomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 follow	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bidding	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 passed	nsubj
9	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	through	through	ADP	_	12 gates	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gates	det
12	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 passed	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 town	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 town	det
15	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gates	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 army	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 army	cc
18	through	through	ADP	_	20 army	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 army	det
20	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 passed	obl
21	outside	outside	ADV	_	20 army	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stopped	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 stopped	cc
24	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	25 stopped	nsubj
25	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 passed	conj
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 stopped	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 seemed	punct
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 seemed	cc
29	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 stopped	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 see	mark
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 seemed	xcomp
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 see	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bid	gerund	Dotterine not said here			then		tree rules
2	follow	infinitive	Dotterine	godmother				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	pass	past	Dotterine		the gates of the town		through the army	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through gate=Initial_Location through army=Destination
4	stop	past	nobody	gates = gate				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector they=Eventuality
5	seem	past	nobody not said here					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	see	to-infinitive	nobody not said here	gates = gate				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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