The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 16
Then she took her lute and, without saying anything to anyone, she went forth into the wide world.
Who acts: idea · What happens: take, say, go · To what, where: lute, anything, anyone, wide world · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (idea), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lute | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lute | lute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saying | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saying | punct |
| 8 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 9 saying | mark |
| 9 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 saying | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 anyone | case |
| 12 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 anything | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 16 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 world | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 19 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 world | amod |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | idea | idea's lute | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lute=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | idea not said here | anything | anyone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent anything=Topic to anyone=Recipient | |||
| 3 | go | past | idea | the wide world | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial_Location |
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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