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The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 87

‘A merchant,’ replied the princess, ‘who had somehow missed his road, and lost himself among the island swamps of the sea.’

Who acts: merchant · What happens: reply, miss, lose · To what, where: princess, road, merchant

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 (merchant), 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

punctdetnsubjpunctpunctdetobjpunctpunctnsubjauxadvmodconjnmod:possobjpunctccconjobjcasedetcompoundoblcasedetnmodpunctpunctroot‘PUNCTADETmerchantNOUN,PUNCT’PUNCTrepliedVERBtheDETprincessNOUN,PUNCT‘PUNCTwhoPRONhadAUXsomehowADVmissedVERBhisPRONroadNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJlostVERBhimselfPRONamongADPtheDETislandNOUNswampsNOUNofADPtheDETseaNOUN.PUNCT’PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1‘'PUNCT_6 repliedpunct
2AaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art3 merchantdet
3merchantmerchantNOUNNumber=Sing6 repliednsubj
4,,PUNCT_3 merchantpunct
5’'PUNCT_3 merchantpunct
6repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 princessdet
8princessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing6 repliedobj
9,,PUNCT_14 missedpunct
10‘'PUNCT_14 missedpunct
11whowhoPRONPronType=Rel14 missednsubj
12hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 missedaux
13somehowsomehowADV_14 missedadvmod
14missedmissVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part6 repliedconj
15hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs16 roadnmod:poss
16roadroadNOUNNumber=Sing14 missedobj
17,,PUNCT_19 lostpunct
18andandCCONJ_19 lostcc
19lostloseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 repliedconj
20himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes19 lostobj
21amongamongADP_24 swampscase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 swampsdet
23islandislandNOUNNumber=Sing24 swampscompound
24swampsswampNOUNNumber=Plur19 lostobl
25ofofADP_27 seacase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 seadet
27seaseaNOUNNumber=Sing24 swampsnmod
28..PUNCT_6 repliedpunct
29’'PUNCT_6 repliedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reply speech: assertpasta merchantthe princessvn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent princess=Topic
2misspast · perfectmerchant's roadsomehow propertyvn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer road=Stimulus
3losepasta merchant not said heremerchantamong the island swamps of the seavn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Eventuality

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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