The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 99
It was not till they drew near the town that the princess stooped and asked Sunlight what they should do.
Who acts: flash, princess, words · What happens: not be, stoop, ask, do · To what, where: town, Sunlight
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 (flash, princess, words), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 drew | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 drew | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 drew | advmod |
| 4 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 6 drew | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 drew | nsubj |
| 6 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 town | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 town | det |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drew | obl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 stooped | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 princess | det |
| 12 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stooped | nsubj |
| 13 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 town | acl:relcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 asked | cc |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 stooped | conj |
| 16 | Sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | obj |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 do | obj |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 do | nsubj |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | aux |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 Sunlight | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | flash | the town | draw property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stoop | past | the princess | the town not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location town=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the princess not said here | Sunlight | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sunlight=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | do | should | words = word | Sunlight | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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