The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 88
Not knowing if it was proper to receive him or not, the slaves returned to their mistress and told her all they had seen, but not before she had caught sight of the merchant from the roof of her palace.
Who acts: slaves, it · What happens: not know, be, receive, return, tell, see · To what, where: merchant, mistress · 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 (slaves, it), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 knowing | advmod |
| 2 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 returned | advcl |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 proper | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 proper | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 proper | cop |
| 6 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 knowing | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 receive | mark |
| 8 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 proper | csubj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 receive | obj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 not | cc |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 proper | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 knowing | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 slaves | det |
| 14 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 returned | nsubj |
| 15 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 mistress | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 returned | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 told | cc |
| 20 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 returned | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 told | iobj |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 her | det |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 seen | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 seen | aux |
| 25 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 told | ccomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 caught | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 caught | cc |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 caught | advmod |
| 29 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 32 caught | mark |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 caught | aux |
| 32 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 seen | conj |
| 33 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 caught | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 merchant | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 merchant | det |
| 36 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sight | nmod |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 roof | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 roof | det |
| 39 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 merchant | nmod |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 palace | case |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 palace | nmod:poss |
| 42 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 roof | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | gerund | the slaves not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | it | proper property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | receive | to-infinitive | merchant | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 4 | return | past | the slaves | to slaves's mistress result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to mistress=Result | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | the slaves not said here | mistress | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | see | past · perfect | slaves = slave | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | not catch | past · perfect · passive | mistress | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary sight=Theme | |||||
| 8 | sight | the merchant from the roof of mistress's palace | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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