The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 46

He managed, unseen, to overtake his daughter, and throw a bridge of copper over a stream which she would have to cross.

Who acts: emperor, stream · What happens: manage, overtake, throw, have, cross · To what, where: daughter, bridge, stream

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 (emperor, stream), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 managed	nsubj
2	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 unseen	punct
4	unseen	unseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 managed	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 overtake	punct
6	to	to	PART	_	7 overtake	mark
7	overtake	overtake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 managed	parataxis
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 daughter	nmod:poss
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 overtake	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 throw	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 throw	cc
12	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 overtake	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bridge	det
14	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 throw	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 copper	case
16	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bridge	nmod
17	over	over	ADP	_	19 stream	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 stream	det
19	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 throw	obl
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 have	nsubj
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 have	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 have	aux
23	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 stream	acl:relcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 cross	mark
25	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 have	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 managed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	manage	past	emperor			unseen property	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	overtake	to-infinitive		emperor's daughter			tree rules
3	throw	infinitive		a bridge of copper	a stream		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bridge=Theme over stream=Destination
4	have	would	a stream				tree rules
5	cross	to-infinitive	a stream not said here				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «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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