The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 150
Long he rode in this awful state, how long none can tell.
Who acts: Petru, none · What happens: ride, tell · To what, where: awful state · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Petru, none), 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 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 rode | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 state | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 state | det |
| 6 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 state | amod |
| 7 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tell | punct |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 long | advmod |
| 10 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 tell | advmod |
| 11 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 13 tell | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 tell | aux |
| 13 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 rode | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | Petru | this awful state | long property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | can | none | long property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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