The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 89
Luckily her gaoler was away, always trying to catch the stud of mares, so for the moment she was free and alone.
Who acts: gaoler, mistress · What happens: be, try, catch · To what, where: stud
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 (gaoler, mistress), 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 | Luckily | luckily | ADV | _ | 8 trying | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 gaoler | nmod:poss |
| 3 | gaoler | gaoler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 away | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 away | cop |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Luckily | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Luckily | punct |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 trying | advmod |
| 8 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 catch | mark |
| 10 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 trying | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stud | det |
| 12 | stud | stud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 catch | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 mares | case |
| 14 | mares | mare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stud | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 free | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 free | advmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 moment | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 moment | det |
| 19 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 free | obl |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 free | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 free | cop |
| 22 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 trying | parataxis |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 alone | cc |
| 24 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 free | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 trying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | mistress's gaoler | away property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | try | gerund | always, luckily property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | catch not said to happen | to-infinitive | the stud of mares | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stud=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | mistress | moment | free property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | be | mistress not said here | 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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