The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 95

She had learnt that Iliane had fled from her prison in company with a merchant, and, as her son was absent, had come herself in pursuit.

Who acts: mother, Iliane, son · What happens: learn, flee, be, come · To what, where: prison, mother, pursuit

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 (mother, Iliane, son), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 learnt	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 learnt	aux
3	learnt	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 fled	mark
5	Iliane	Iliane	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 fled	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fled	aux
7	fled	flee	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 learnt	advcl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 prison	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 prison	nmod:poss
10	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fled	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 company	case
12	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fled	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 merchant	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 merchant	det
15	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 company	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 come	cc
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 and	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 absent	mark
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 son	nmod:poss
21	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 absent	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 absent	cop
23	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 come	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 absent	punct
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 come	aux
26	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 learnt	conj
27	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 come	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 pursuit	case
29	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 come	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 learnt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	learn	past · perfect	mother				vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	flee	past · perfect	Iliane		mother's prison	in company with a merchant	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from prison=Initial_Location
3	is	past	mother's son			absent property	tree rules
4	come	past · perfect	mother not said here	mother	pursuit		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pursuit=Location

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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