The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 86
They hastened up to the owner of these treasures, and inquired who he was.
Who acts: eyes, wind · What happens: hasten up, inquire, be · To what, where: owner
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 (eyes, wind), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hastened | nsubj |
| 2 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 hastened | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 owner | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 owner | det |
| 6 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hastened | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 treasures | case |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 treasures | det |
| 9 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 owner | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 inquired | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 inquired | cc |
| 12 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hastened | conj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 inquired | advcl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 who | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 who | cop |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten up | past | eyes = eye | the owner of this treasures | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to owner=Destination | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | eyes = eye not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | wind | tree rules |
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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