The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 84
Then mounting Sunlight, she rode about till she came to several palaces, built on hinges, so that they could always turn towards the sun.
Who acts: Sunlight, sails · What happens: mount, ride, come, build, turn · To what, where: Sunlight, several palaces, hinges, sun.
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 (Sunlight, sails), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 mounting | advmod |
| 2 | mounting | mount | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 rode | advcl |
| 3 | Sunlight | Sunlight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 mounting | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 mounting | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rode | nsubj |
| 6 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 rode | advmod |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 came | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 turn | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 palaces | case |
| 12 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 palaces | amod |
| 13 | palaces | palace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 came | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 built | punct |
| 15 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 palaces | acl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 hinges | case |
| 17 | hinges | hinge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 built | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 turn | punct |
| 19 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 24 turn | mark |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 so | fixed |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 turn | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 turn | aux |
| 23 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 24 turn | advmod |
| 24 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 rode | parataxis |
| 25 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 27 sun. | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sun. | det |
| 27 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 turn | obl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | gerund | Sunlight not said here | Sunlight | then | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunlight=Patient | |||
| 2 | ride | past | Sunlight | about property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Sunlight | several palaces | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | build | participle | several palaces not said here | hinges | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on hinge=Source | ||||
| 5 | turn | could | sails = sail | the sun. | always property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards sun.=Trajectory |
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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