The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 52
Then she turned him round, and urging him to his fullest speed, never drew rein till she saw the gates of the palace rising before her.
Who acts: girl, palace · What happens: turn, urge, not draw, see, rise · To what, where: wolf, rein, gates
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 (girl, palace), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 turned | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | obj |
| 5 | round | round | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 urging | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 urging | cc |
| 8 | urging | urge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 turned | advcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 urging | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 speed | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 speed | nmod:poss |
| 12 | fullest | full | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 speed | amod |
| 13 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 urging | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 drew | punct |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 drew | advmod |
| 16 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 17 | rein | rein | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drew | obj |
| 18 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 20 saw | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 drew | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 gates | det |
| 22 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 saw | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 palace | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 palace | det |
| 25 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gates | nmod |
| 26 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 palace | acl |
| 27 | before | before | ADP | _ | 28 her | case |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 rising | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | girl | wolf | then | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||
| 2 | urge | gerund | girl not said here | wolf | to wolf's fullest speed | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | not draw | past | girl not said here | rein | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rein=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | girl | the gates of the palace | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gate=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | rise | gerund | the palace not said here | before girl | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location |
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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