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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 genius | det |
| 3 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 carried | aux |
| 6 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 genius | acl:relcl |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 carried | compound:prt |
| 8 | Iliane | Iliane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 wandering | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 wandering | aux |
| 10 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 carried | advcl |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 wandering | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 trying | punct |
| 13 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 wandering | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 discover | mark |
| 15 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 trying | xcomp |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 capture | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 capture | mark |
| 18 | capture | capture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 discover | ccomp |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 capture | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 while | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 while | det |
| 23 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | obl |
| 24 | believing | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 while | acl |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 safe | mark |
| 26 | Iliane | Iliane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 safe | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 safe | cop |
| 28 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 believing | ccomp |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 palace | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 palace | det |
| 31 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 safe | obl |
| 32 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 35 left | advmod |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 left | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 left | aux |
| 35 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 palace | acl:relcl |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 left | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry off | past · perfect · passive | the genius | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | past · progressive | Iliane | about property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | try | gerund | Iliane not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | discover not said to happen | to-infinitive | Iliane not said here | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | capture | to-infinitive | Iliane not said here | skins = skin | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 6 | believe | gerund | all while not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | is | past | Iliane | the palace | safe property | tree rules | |||
| 8 | leave | past · perfect | genius | Iliane | vn 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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