The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 92
They walked to the spot where the club lay.
Who acts: miles, club · What happens: walk, lay
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miles, club), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 spot | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 spot | det |
| 5 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walked | obl |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 lay | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 club | det |
| 8 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | nsubj |
| 9 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 spot | acl:relcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | miles = mile | to the spot result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to spot=Result | ||||
| 2 | lay | infinitive | the club | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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 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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