The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 48
It was scarcely light the next morning before the girl was sweeping out the rooms, and the boy watering the garden, so that by the time the good woman came downstairs there was nothing left for her to do.
Who acts: lodging, girl, boy, good woman, nothing · What happens: be, sweep out, water, come, leave, do · To what, where: scarcely light, rooms, garden, time
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lodging, girl, boy, good woman), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 light | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 light | cop |
| 3 | scarcely | scarcely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 light | amod |
| 4 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 morning | det |
| 6 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 morning | amod |
| 7 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 light | nmod |
| 8 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 sweeping | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sweeping | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sweeping | aux |
| 12 | sweeping | sweep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 morning | acl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 sweeping | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rooms | det |
| 15 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sweeping | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 boy | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 boy | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 boy | det |
| 19 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 light | conj |
| 20 | watering | water | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 boy | acl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 garden | det |
| 22 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 watering | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 time | punct |
| 24 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 28 time | case |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 so | fixed |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 time | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 time | det |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 light | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 woman | det |
| 30 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 woman | amod |
| 31 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 came | nsubj |
| 32 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 time | acl:relcl |
| 33 | downstairs | downstairs | ADV | _ | 32 came | advmod |
| 34 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 35 was | expl |
| 35 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 came | advcl |
| 36 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 35 was | nsubj |
| 37 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 nothing | acl |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 her | case |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 left | obl |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 do | mark |
| 41 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 left | advcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 light | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | lodging | scarcely light and the boy and the time | morning | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sweep out | past · progressive | the girl | the rooms | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | water | gerund | the boy not said here | the garden | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent garden=Destination | ||||
| 4 | come | past | the good woman | the time not said here | downstairs property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme | |||
| 5 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | leave | participle | for woman | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for she=Recipient | |||||
| 7 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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