The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 44
On reaching the palace, she drove them into a yard, and went to inform the emperor of her arrival.
Who acts: princess · What happens: reach, drive, go, inform, arrive · To what, where: palace, emperor
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 (princess), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 reaching | mark |
| 2 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 drove | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 palace | det |
| 4 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reaching | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 reaching | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 drove | nsubj |
| 7 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 drove | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 yard | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 yard | det |
| 11 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drove | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 drove | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 inform | mark |
| 16 | inform | inform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 went | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 emperor | det |
| 18 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 inform | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 arrival | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 21 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 emperor | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | gerund | princess not said here | the palace | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drive | past | princess | palace | into a yard | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme into yard=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | go | past | princess not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | inform speech: other | to-infinitive | princess not said here | the emperor of princess's arrival | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent emperor=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | arrive | princess | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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