The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 109
In the afternoon he went out, in order to learn something of his new home, and wondered greatly not to come across the old grandmother.
Who acts: door · What happens: go out, learn, wonder, not come · To what, where: something
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 (door), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 afternoon | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 afternoon | det |
| 3 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 went | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 learn | punct |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 11 learn | mark |
| 9 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 in | fixed |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 learn | mark |
| 11 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | conj |
| 12 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 learn | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 home | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 home | nmod:poss |
| 15 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 home | amod |
| 16 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 something | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wondered | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wondered | cc |
| 19 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 20 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 19 wondered | advmod |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 come | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 come | mark |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wondered | xcomp |
| 24 | across | across | ADP | _ | 27 grandmother | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 grandmother | det |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 grandmother | amod |
| 27 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 come | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | door | afternoon | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | learn | to-infinitive | door not said here | something | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | past | door not said here | greatly property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not come | to-infinitive | door not said here | across the old grandmother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across grandmother=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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