The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 46
These youths came forward to greet their new companion, and wondered why they felt so attracted towards him.
Who acts: youths · What happens: come forward, greet, wonder, feel, attract · To what, where: new companion · 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 (youths), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 youths | det |
| 2 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 greet | mark |
| 6 | greet | greet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | advcl |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 companion | nmod:poss |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 companion | amod |
| 9 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 greet | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wondered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wondered | cc |
| 12 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 13 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 felt | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 felt | nsubj |
| 15 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wondered | ccomp |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 attracted | advmod |
| 17 | attracted | attract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 felt | xcomp |
| 18 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 attracted | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come forward | past | this youths | forward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | greet speech: greet | to-infinitive | this youths not said here | youths's new companion | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent companion=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | past | this youths not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | feel | past | youths = youth | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | attract | participle | youths = youth not said here | towards boy | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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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