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The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 29

Here the genius who had carried off Iliane was wandering about, trying to discover how to capture them, all the while believing that Iliane was safe in the palace where he had left her.

Who acts: Iliane, while, genius · What happens: carry off, wonder, try, discover, capture, believe · To what, where: genius, skins, palace, Iliane · 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iliane, while, genius), 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

detnsubjnsubj:passauxacl:relclcompound:prtnsubjauxadvcladvmodpunctconjmarkxcompadvmodmarkccompobjpunctdet:predetdetoblaclmarknsubjcopccompcasedetobladvmodnsubjauxacl:relclobjpunctrootHereADVtheDETgeniusNOUNwhoPRONhadAUXcarriedVERBoffADPIlianePROPNwasAUXwanderingVERBaboutADV,PUNCTtryingVERBtoPARTdiscoverVERBhowADVtoPARTcaptureVERBthemPRON,PUNCTallDETtheDETwhileNOUNbelievingVERBthatSCONJIlianePROPNwasAUXsafeADJinADPtheDETpalaceNOUNwhereADVhePRONhadAUXleftVERBherPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HerehereADVPronType=Demrootroot
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 geniusdet
3geniusgeniusNOUNNumber=Sing1 Herensubj
4whowhoPRONPronType=Rel6 carriednsubj:pass
5hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 carriedaux
6carriedcarryVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass3 geniusacl:relcl
7offoffADP_6 carriedcompound:prt
8IlianeIlianePROPNNumber=Sing10 wanderingnsubj
9wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 wanderingaux
10wanderingwonderVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part6 carriedadvcl
11aboutaboutADV_10 wanderingadvmod
12,,PUNCT_13 tryingpunct
13tryingtryVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part10 wanderingconj
14totoPART_15 discovermark
15discoverdiscoverVERBVerbForm=Inf13 tryingxcomp
16howhowADVPronType=Int18 captureadvmod
17totoPART_18 capturemark
18capturecaptureVERBVerbForm=Inf15 discoverccomp
19themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs18 captureobj
20,,PUNCT_1 Herepunct
21allallDETPronType=Tot23 whiledet:predet
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 whiledet
23whilewhileNOUNNumber=Sing1 Hereobl
24believingbelieveVERBVerbForm=Ger23 whileacl
25thatthatSCONJ_28 safemark
26IlianeIlianePROPNNumber=Sing28 safensubj
27wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 safecop
28safesafeADJDegree=Pos24 believingccomp
29ininADP_31 palacecase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 palacedet
31palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing28 safeobl
32wherewhereADVPronType=Rel35 leftadvmod
33hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs35 leftnsubj
34hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin35 leftaux
35leftleaveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part31 palaceacl:relcl
36hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs35 leftobj
37..PUNCT_1 Herepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1carry offpast · perfect · passivethe geniusvn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2wonder speech: askpast · progressiveIlianeabout propertyvn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3trygerundIliane not said herevn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4discover not said to happento-infinitiveIliane not said herevn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5captureto-infinitiveIliane not said hereskins = skinvn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6believegerundall while not said herevn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
7ispastIlianethe palacesafe propertytree rules
8leavepast · perfectgeniusIlianevn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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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