The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 101
The girl made a sign to him to follow her, and, throwing open a door, nodded to him to go in.
Who acts: girl · What happens: make, follow, throw, open, nod, go in · To what, where: sign, servant, girl, door
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sign | det |
| 5 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 follow | mark |
| 9 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | advcl |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 follow | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 throwing | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 throwing | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 throwing | punct |
| 14 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 made | advcl |
| 15 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 throwing | xcomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 door | det |
| 17 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 open | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 nodded | punct |
| 19 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 nodded | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 go | mark |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 nodded | advcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADV | _ | 23 go | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the girl | a sign | servant | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Product | |||
| 2 | follow | to-infinitive | the girl not said here | girl | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | throw | gerund | the girl not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | open | infinitive | the girl not said here | a door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 5 | nod | past | door | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | go in | to-infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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