The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 25
I traced him as far as the shore, and knew that he had crossed the sea, and that I must follow.
Who acts: I, man · What happens: trace, know, cross, follow · To what, where: man, sea · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, man), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 traced | nsubj |
| 2 | traced | trace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 traced | obj |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 far | advmod |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 traced | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 shore | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shore | det |
| 8 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 far | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 knew | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 knew | cc |
| 11 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 traced | parataxis |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 crossed | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 crossed | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 crossed | aux |
| 15 | crossed | cross | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 knew | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sea | det |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 crossed | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 follow | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 follow | cc |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 follow | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 follow | nsubj |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 follow | aux |
| 23 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 traced | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 traced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trace | past | I | man | far property | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | know | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | cross | past · perfect | man | the sea | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Patient | ||||
| 4 | follow | must | I | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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