The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 17
After breakfast the genius gave his arm to his guest, and asked her to come with him into the garden.
Who acts: genius · What happens: give, ask, come · To what, where: arm, guest, garden
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (genius), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 breakfast | case |
| 2 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 genius | det |
| 4 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 arm | nmod:poss |
| 7 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 guest | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 guest | nmod:poss |
| 10 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asked | cc |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 asked | iobj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 come | mark |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 asked | xcomp |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 come | obl |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 garden | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 garden | det |
| 21 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the genius | man's arm | man's guest | after breakfast | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent arm=Theme to guest=Recipient | ||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the genius not said here | guest | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | the genius not said here | the garden | with man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_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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