The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 24
After this she informed the genius that she would start early next day and take Sunlight with her.
Who acts: princess · What happens: inform, start, take · To what, where: genius, Sunlight · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (princess), 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 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 informed | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 informed | nsubj |
| 4 | informed | inform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 genius | det |
| 6 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 informed | obj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 start | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 start | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 start | aux |
| 10 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 informed | ccomp |
| 11 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 start | advmod |
| 12 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 day | amod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 start | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 take | cc |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 start | conj |
| 16 | Sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 take | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 informed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inform speech: other | past | princess | the genius | after this | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent genius=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | start | would | princess | day | early property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | take | infinitive | princess not said here | Sunlight | with princess | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunlight=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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