The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 43
They rode all day till they got to the town where their real uncle lived, and inquired the way to his house.
Who acts: uncle, real uncle · What happens: ride, get, live, inquire · To what, where: way
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (uncle, real uncle), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rode | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 7 got | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 got | nsubj |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rode | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 town | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 town | det |
| 10 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obl |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 lived | advmod |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 13 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 uncle | amod |
| 14 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lived | nsubj |
| 15 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 town | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 inquired | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 inquired | cc |
| 18 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rode | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 way | det |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 inquired | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 house | nmod:poss |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 inquired | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | uncle | day | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get | past | uncle | to the town result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to town=Result | ||||
| 3 | live | past | uncle's real uncle | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | inquire speech: other | past | uncle not said here | the way | to Halfman's house | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Recipient |
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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