The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 86
On him he began to call, and before many minutes had passed that royal personage made his appearance.
Who acts: Assistance, royal personage · What happens: begin, call, pass, make · To what, where: appearance · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Assistance, royal personage), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 him | case |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 began | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 call | mark |
| 6 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 began | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 passed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 passed | cc |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 minutes | case |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 minutes | amod |
| 11 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 passed | obl |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 passed | aux |
| 13 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 began | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 made | mark |
| 15 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 personage | amod |
| 16 | personage | personage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | nsubj |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 passed | advcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 19 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Assistance | on Assistance | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | call | to-infinitive | Assistance not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pass | past · perfect | Assistance not said here | minute | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | past | royal personage | Assistance's appearance | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset appearance=Product |
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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