The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 40
She had ridden only a few miles further, when she saw a golden curl lying on the road before her.
Who acts: leave, golden curl · What happens: ride, see, lie · To what, where: few miles, golden curl, road
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 (leave, golden curl), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ridden | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ridden | aux |
| 3 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 miles | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 miles | det |
| 6 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 miles | amod |
| 7 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ridden | obl |
| 8 | further | further | ADV | _ | 3 ridden | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 saw | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ridden | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 curl | det |
| 14 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 curl | amod |
| 15 | curl | curl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 16 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 curl | acl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 road | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 road | det |
| 19 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lying | obl |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lying | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ridden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past · perfect | leave | a few miles | further property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | see | past | leave | a golden curl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer curl=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | a golden curl not said here | the road | before leave | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on road=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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