The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 109
She longed to get down and bathe her face in the clear pools, and pick the brilliant flowers, but the horse said ‘No,’ and quickened his pace, neither turning to the right or the left.
Who acts: remembrance, horse · What happens: long, get down, bathe, pick, say, quicken · To what, where: face, brilliant flowers, pace, right · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, 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 (remembrance, horse), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 longed | nsubj |
| 2 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 get | mark |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 longed | xcomp |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 get | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bathe | cc |
| 7 | bathe | bathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 get | conj |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 face | nmod:poss |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bathe | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 pools | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pools | det |
| 12 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pools | amod |
| 13 | pools | pool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bathe | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pick | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pick | cc |
| 16 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 longed | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 flowers | det |
| 18 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 flowers | amod |
| 19 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 pick | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 said | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 horse | det |
| 23 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 said | nsubj |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 longed | conj |
| 25 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 No | punct |
| 26 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 24 said | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 No | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 No | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 quickened | cc |
| 30 | quickened | quicken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 longed | conj |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 pace | nmod:poss |
| 32 | pace | pace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 quickened | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 turning | punct |
| 34 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 35 turning | cc:preconj |
| 35 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 quickened | advcl |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 right | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 right | det |
| 38 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 turning | obl |
| 39 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 41 left | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 left | det |
| 41 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 right | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 longed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | long | past | remembrance | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get down not said to happen | to-infinitive | remembrance not said here | down property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bathe | infinitive | remembrance not said here | remembrance's face | in the clear pools | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Destination in pool=Theme | |||
| 4 | pick | infinitive | remembrance not said here | the brilliant flowers | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the horse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic | |||||
| 6 | quicken | past | remembrance not said here | song's pace | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pace=Patient | ||||
| 7 | turn | gerund | remembrance not said here | the right or the left | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to right=Trajectory |
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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