The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 45
They were long on their way, but he never found out who she was, and she led him nearer and nearer to his own country.
Who acts: journeys, husband, queen · What happens: be, not find out, lead · To what, where: way, husband
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 (journeys, husband, queen), 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 | 6 way | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 way | cop |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 way | advmod |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 way | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 way | nmod:poss |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | nsubj |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 found | advmod |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 way | parataxis |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 found | compound:prt |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 found | obj |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 was | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 who | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 led | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 led | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 led | nsubj |
| 19 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 found | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 led | obj |
| 21 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 led | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 nearer | cc |
| 23 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 nearer | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 country | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 country | nmod:poss |
| 26 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 country | amod |
| 27 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 nearer | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | journeys = journey | journeys's way | long property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not find out | past | husband | journeys's way | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent who=Topic | ||||
| 3 | lead | past | queen | husband | near property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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