The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 44

She was soon out of sight, and if after a few miles she had not pulled up to allow her escort to join her, the rest of the journey would have been performed alone.

Who acts: heart, escort, rest · What happens: be, not pull up, allow, join, perform · To what, where: sight, few miles, escort, heart, journey

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 (heart, escort, rest), 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	6 sight	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sight	cop
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 sight	advmod
4	out	out	ADP	_	6 sight	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 sight	case
6	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pulled	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 pulled	cc
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 miles	mark
10	after	after	ADP	_	13 miles	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 miles	det
12	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 miles	amod
13	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pulled	nsubj:pass
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 pulled	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 pulled	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 pulled	advmod
17	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sight	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 pulled	compound:prt
19	to	to	PART	_	20 allow	mark
20	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 pulled	advcl
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 escort	nmod:poss
22	escort	escort	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 allow	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 join	mark
24	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 allow	xcomp
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 join	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 rest	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 rest	det
28	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sight	conj
29	of	of	SCONJ	_	35 performed	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 journey	det
31	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 performed	nsubj:pass
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 performed	aux
33	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 performed	aux
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 performed	aux:pass
35	performed	perform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 rest	acl:relcl
36	alone	alone	ADV	_	35 performed	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sight	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	heart		sight and the rest	soon property	tree rules
2	not pull up	past · perfect · passive		a few miles			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	allow	to-infinitive		heart's escort			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer escort=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4	join not said to happen	to-infinitive	heart's escort not said here	heart			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
5	perform	would · perfect · passive	the rest not said here	the journey		alone property	vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: subject=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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