The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 112
The secretary could make nothing of it all, and drove back to the town.
Who acts: secretary · What happens: make, drive back · To what, where: nothing, town
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (secretary), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 secretary | det |
| 2 | secretary | secretary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 make | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 nothing | nmod |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 it | det |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drove | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drove | cc |
| 11 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | conj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 drove | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 town | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 town | det |
| 15 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drove | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | could | the secretary | nothing | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nothing=Product | ||||
| 2 | drive back | past | the secretary not said here | the town | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to town=Trajectory |
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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