The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 99
The emperor, proud of this first victory, took a short cut, and waited for her at the end of another day’s journey, close to a river, over which he threw a bridge of silver.
Who acts: emperor, day · What happens: take, wait, throw, journey · To what, where: short cut, end, bridge
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, day), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 emperor | det |
| 2 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 proud | punct |
| 4 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 emperor | amod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 victory | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 victory | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 victory | amod |
| 8 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 proud | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 emperor | punct |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cut | det |
| 12 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cut | amod |
| 13 | cut | cut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 waited | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 waited | cc |
| 16 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | parataxis |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 waited | obl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 end | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 end | det |
| 21 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 waited | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 journey | case |
| 23 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 day | det |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 journey | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 day | case |
| 26 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 end | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 close | punct |
| 28 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 journey | amod |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 river | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 river | det |
| 31 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 close | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 threw | punct |
| 33 | over | over | ADP | _ | 34 which | case |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 threw | obl |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 threw | nsubj |
| 36 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 waited | conj |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 bridge | det |
| 38 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 threw | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 silver | case |
| 40 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 bridge | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the emperor | a short cut | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cut=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wait | past | at the end of another day's journey | for beast | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | emperor | a bridge of silver | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bridge=Theme over which=Destination | ||||
| 4 | journey | another day | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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