The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 25
Eve worked, Adam superintended.
Who acts: Eve, Adam · What happens: work, superintend
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 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 (Eve, Adam), 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 | Eve | Eve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 worked | nsubj |
| 2 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 superintended | punct |
| 4 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 superintended | nsubj |
| 5 | superintended | superintend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 worked | conj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 worked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | past | Eve | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | superintend | past | Adam | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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