The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 41
When her father saw her mounted and curvetting about the court, he gave her much wise advice, as to how she was to behave like the young man she appeared to be, and also how to behave as the girl she really was.
Who acts: father, heart · What happens: see, mount, curvet, give, be, appear · To what, where: wise advice, heart, young man · 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 (father, heart), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 mounted | nsubj |
| 6 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 curvetting | cc |
| 8 | curvetting | curvet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 saw | conj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 court | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 court | det |
| 11 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 curvetting | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | parataxis |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | iobj |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 17 wise | advmod |
| 17 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 advice | amod |
| 18 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 behave | punct |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 behave | mark |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 as | fixed |
| 22 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 behave | advmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 behave | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 behave | cop |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 behave | mark |
| 26 | behave | behave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 gave | conj |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 30 man | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 man | det |
| 29 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 man | amod |
| 30 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 behave | obl |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 appeared | nsubj |
| 32 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 man | acl:relcl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 be | mark |
| 34 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 appeared | xcomp |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 behave | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 behave | cc |
| 37 | also | also | ADV | _ | 40 behave | advmod |
| 38 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 40 behave | advmod |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 behave | mark |
| 40 | behave | behave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 saw | conj |
| 41 | as | as | ADP | _ | 43 girl | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 girl | det |
| 43 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 behave | obl |
| 44 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 was | nsubj |
| 45 | really | really | ADV | _ | 46 was | advmod |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 girl | acl:relcl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | heart's father | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | mount | past | heart | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | curvet | gerund | heart's father not said here | about the court | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give | past | father | wise advice | heart | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient advice=Theme | |||
| 5 | is | past | heart | like the young man; behave property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | appear | past | heart | the young man not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be | to-infinitive | heart not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | behave | to-infinitive | heart's father not said here | as the girl | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as girl=Attribute |
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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