The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 8
‘That is the house of the goddess Venus,’ replied the horse, ‘and if we ride hard we may reach it before dark’; and he darted off like an arrow, so that as twilight fell they found themselves nearing the house.
Who acts: That, house, we, Petru, thistles · What happens: be, reply, ride, reach, dart off, fall · To what, where: house, horse, thistles
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, house, we, Petru), 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 | _ | 5 house | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 house | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 house | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 goddess | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 goddess | det |
| 8 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 house | nmod |
| 9 | Venus | Venus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 goddess | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 house | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 house | punct |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 horse | det |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ‘ | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 horse | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 reach | cc |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 ride | mark |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 ride | nsubj |
| 20 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 reach | advcl |
| 21 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 ride | advmod |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 reach | nsubj |
| 23 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 reach | aux |
| 24 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 replied | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 reach | obj |
| 26 | before | before | ADP | _ | 27 dark | case |
| 27 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 reach | obl |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 reach | punct |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 darted | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 darted | cc |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 darted | nsubj |
| 32 | darted | dart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 replied | parataxis |
| 33 | off | off | ADP | _ | 32 darted | compound:prt |
| 34 | like | like | ADP | _ | 36 arrow | case |
| 35 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 arrow | det |
| 36 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 darted | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 fell | punct |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 42 fell | advmod |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 fell | mark |
| 40 | as | as | ADP | _ | 41 twilight | case |
| 41 | twilight | twilight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 fell | obl |
| 42 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 darted | conj |
| 43 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 found | nsubj |
| 44 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 fell | conj |
| 45 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 44 found | obj |
| 46 | nearing | near | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 44 found | advcl |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 house | det |
| 48 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 nearing | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | the house | of the goddess | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the house | the horse and ‘ | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent horse=Topic | ||||
| 3 | ride a condition, not said to happen | present | we | hard property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | reach | may | we | house | before dark | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 5 | dart off | past | Petru | like a arrow | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | fall | past | Petru not said here | as twilight | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | find | past | thistles = thistle | thistles = thistle | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic | ||||
| 8 | near | gerund | thistles = thistle not said here | the house | tree rules |
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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