The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 42
Nothing now remained to be done but to drive the whole stud to the emperor’s court.
Who acts: Nothing · What happens: remain, do, drive · To what, where: whole stud, court
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 (Nothing), 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 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 remained | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 remained | advmod |
| 3 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 done | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 done | aux:pass |
| 6 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 remained | xcomp |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 drive | cc |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 drive | mark |
| 9 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 done | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stud | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stud | amod |
| 12 | stud | stud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drive | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 court | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 emperor | det |
| 15 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 court | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 emperor | case |
| 17 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drive | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | Nothing | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive · passive | Nothing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | drive | to-infinitive | Nothing not said here | the whole stud | the emperor's court | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stud=Theme to court=Trajectory |
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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