The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 73
Her mother recognised them all, and, pulling up, asked her daughter if she did not repent and would not like to come home again.
Who acts: mother, pulling · What happens: recognise, pull up, ask, not repent, not like, come · To what, where: reins, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, pulling), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 recognised | nsubj |
| 3 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 recognised | obj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pulling | punct |
| 9 | pulling | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 asked | csubj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 pulling | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pulling | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 recognised | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | iobj |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 repent | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 repent | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 repent | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 repent | advmod |
| 19 | repent | repent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 asked | xcomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 like | cc |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 like | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 like | advmod |
| 23 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 repent | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 come | mark |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 like | xcomp |
| 26 | home | home | ADV | _ | 25 come | advmod |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 come | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 recognised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognise | past | girl's mother | reins = rein | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | pull up | gerund | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | pulling | girl's daughter | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | not repent a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | mother | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not like | would | mother not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | mother not said here | again | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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