The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 92
Once on board ship, she was so busy turning over all the precious things stored there, that she never knew that the sails were spread, and that they were flying along with the wind behind them; and when she did know, she rejoiced in her heart, though she pretended to weep and lament at being carried captive a second time.
Who acts: mistress, sails · What happens: be, turn, store, not know, spread, fly · To what, where: ship, precious things, sails, heart · 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 (mistress, 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 busy | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 ship | case |
| 3 | board | board | ADP | _ | 4 ship | case |
| 4 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 busy | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ship | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 busy | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 busy | cop |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 busy | advmod |
| 9 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 busy | advcl |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 things | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 things | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 things | det |
| 14 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 things | amod |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 turning | obl |
| 16 | stored | store | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 things | acl |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 stored | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 knew | punct |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 knew | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 knew | nsubj |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 knew | advmod |
| 22 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 busy | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 spread | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sails | det |
| 25 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 spread | aux:pass |
| 27 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 knew | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 flying | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 flying | cc |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 flying | mark |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 flying | nsubj |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 flying | aux |
| 33 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 busy | advcl |
| 34 | along | along | ADV | _ | 33 flying | advmod |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 wind | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 wind | det |
| 37 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 flying | obl |
| 38 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 39 them | case |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 wind | nmod |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 know | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 know | cc |
| 42 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 45 know | advmod |
| 43 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 know | nsubj |
| 44 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 know | aux |
| 45 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 busy | parataxis |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 rejoiced | punct |
| 47 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 48 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 know | ccomp |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 heart | case |
| 50 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 heart | nmod:poss |
| 51 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 rejoiced | obl |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 pretended | punct |
| 53 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 55 pretended | mark |
| 54 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 pretended | nsubj |
| 55 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 rejoiced | conj |
| 56 | to | to | PART | _ | 57 weep | mark |
| 57 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 55 pretended | xcomp |
| 58 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 59 lament | cc |
| 59 | lament | lament | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 57 weep | conj |
| 60 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 62 carried | mark |
| 61 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 62 carried | aux:pass |
| 62 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 59 lament | advcl |
| 63 | captive | captive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 62 carried | xcomp |
| 64 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 66 time | det |
| 65 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 66 time | amod |
| 66 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 carried | obl:unmarked |
| 67 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | mistress | ship | busy, once property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | turn | gerund | mistress not said here | all precious things | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme over thing=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | store | participle | all precious things not said here | there | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not know | past | mistress | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | spread | past · passive | the sails | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | fly | past · progressive | sails = sail | with the wind behind slaves; along property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | know | past · do-support | mistress | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | rejoice | past | mistress | mistress's heart | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 9 | pretend | past | mistress | tree rules | |||||
| 10 | weep | to-infinitive | mistress not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 11 | lament | infinitive | mistress not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 12 | carry | gerund · passive | mistress not said here | time | captive property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP» |
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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