The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 56
When the pages heard of this shocking state of things, they went to their companion and implored her to come to the rescue.
Who acts: pages · What happens: hear, go, implore, come · To what, where: companion, princess, rescue
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 (pages), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pages | det |
| 3 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | advcl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 state | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 state | det |
| 7 | shocking | shocking | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 state | amod |
| 8 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 things | case |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 state | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 companion | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 companion | nmod:poss |
| 16 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 implored | cc |
| 18 | implored | implore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 implored | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 come | mark |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 implored | xcomp |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 rescue | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 rescue | det |
| 24 | rescue | rescue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 come | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the pages | of this shocking state of things | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of state=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go | past | pages = page | pages's companion | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to companion=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | implore | past | pages = page not said here | princess | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | come | to-infinitive | pages = page not said here | the rescue | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rescue=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/39/56/