The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 112
‘We will ride at different speeds,’ said he, ‘not so fast as to grow tired nor so slow as to waste time.’
Who acts: We, aspect · What happens: ride, say, grow, waste · To what, where: different speeds · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, aspect), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 ride | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ride | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 ride | aux |
| 4 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 speeds | case |
| 6 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 speeds | amod |
| 7 | speeds | speed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ride | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ride | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 ride | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fast | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 fast | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 fast | advmod |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 fast | advmod |
| 16 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 slow | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 grow | mark |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 grow | mark |
| 19 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 fast | ccomp |
| 20 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 grow | xcomp |
| 21 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 22 so | cc |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 slow | advmod |
| 23 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | conj |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 waste | mark |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 waste | mark |
| 26 | waste | waste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 slow | advcl |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 waste | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | future | We | different speeds | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | aspect | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | grow | to-infinitive | tired property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | waste | to-infinitive | aspect not said here | time | vn destroy-44 «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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