The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 18
For some time they walked about looking at the flowers, the genius all the while pressing her to pick any she fancied.
Who acts: genius, guest · What happens: walk, look, press, pick, fancy · To what, where: guest, any
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, guest), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walked | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 walked | nsubj |
| 5 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 7 looking | mark |
| 7 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 walked | advcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 flowers | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 flowers | det |
| 10 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 looking | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 genius | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 genius | det |
| 13 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flowers | conj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 while | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 while | det |
| 16 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looking | obl |
| 17 | pressing | press | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 looking | advcl |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 pressing | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 pick | mark |
| 20 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 pressing | advcl |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 pick | obj |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fancied | nsubj |
| 23 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 any | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | genius | time | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | genius not said here | while | at the flowers and the genius | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at flower=Theme | |||
| 3 | press | gerund | genius not said here | guest | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent she=Result | ||||
| 4 | pick | to-infinitive | genius not said here | any | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Patient | ||||
| 5 | fancy | past | guest | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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