The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 54
All the stories were translated or adapted by Mrs. Lang, except ‘The Jogi’s Punishment’ and ‘Moti,’ done by Major Campbell out of the Pushtoo language; ‘How Brave Walter hunted Wolves,’ which, with ‘Little Lasse’ and ‘The Raspberry Worm,’ was done from Topelius by Miss Harding; and ‘The Sea King’s Gift,’ by Miss Christie, from the same author.
Who acts: Miss, Brave, Miss Harding, Jogi · What happens: translate, adapt, do, hunt, punish · To what, where: stories, Moti, Pushtoo language, Wolves, Topelius
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 (Miss, Brave, Miss Harding, Jogi), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 stories | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stories | det |
| 3 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 translated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 translated | aux:pass |
| 5 | translated | translate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 adapted | cc |
| 7 | adapted | adapt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 translated | conj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 Mrs. | case |
| 9 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 adapted | obl:agent |
| 10 | Lang | Lang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Mrs. | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Punishment | punct |
| 12 | except | except | ADP | _ | 17 Punishment | case |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 Punishment | punct |
| 14 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Jogi | det |
| 15 | Jogi | Jogi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Punishment | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Jogi | case |
| 17 | Punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 translated | parataxis |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 Punishment | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Moti | cc |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 Moti | punct |
| 21 | Moti | Moti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Punishment | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 done | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | ADV | _ | 24 done | advmod |
| 24 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 Moti | acl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 Campbell | case |
| 26 | Major | Major | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Campbell | compound |
| 27 | Campbell | Campbell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 done | obl |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 language | case |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 language | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 language | det |
| 31 | Pushtoo | Pushtoo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 language | compound |
| 32 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 done | obl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 hunted | punct |
| 34 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 38 hunted | punct |
| 35 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 hunted | advmod |
| 36 | Brave | Brave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 hunted | nsubj |
| 37 | Walter | Walter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Brave | flat |
| 38 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 translated | conj |
| 39 | Wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 hunted | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 ’ | punct |
| 41 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 38 hunted | punct |
| 42 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 57 done | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 which | punct |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 47 Lasse | case |
| 45 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 47 Lasse | punct |
| 46 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 Lasse | amod |
| 47 | Lasse | Lasse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 57 done | obl |
| 48 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 47 Lasse | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 Worm | cc |
| 50 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 53 Worm | punct |
| 51 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 Worm | det |
| 52 | Raspberry | Raspberry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 Worm | compound |
| 53 | Worm | Worm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Lasse | conj |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 Lasse | punct |
| 55 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 47 Lasse | punct |
| 56 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 57 done | aux:pass |
| 57 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 hunted | advcl |
| 58 | from | from | ADP | _ | 59 Topelius | case |
| 59 | Topelius | Topelius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 57 done | obl |
| 60 | by | by | ADP | _ | 62 Harding | case |
| 61 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 62 Harding | compound |
| 62 | Harding | harding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 done | obl |
| 63 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 70 Gift | punct |
| 64 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 70 Gift | cc |
| 65 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 64 and | punct |
| 66 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 68 King | det |
| 67 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 68 King | compound |
| 68 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 70 Gift | nmod:poss |
| 69 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 68 King | case |
| 70 | Gift | Gift | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 translated | parataxis |
| 71 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 70 Gift | punct |
| 72 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 70 Gift | punct |
| 73 | by | by | ADP | _ | 74 Miss | case |
| 74 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 translated | obl:agent |
| 75 | Christie | Christie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 74 Miss | flat |
| 76 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 80 author | punct |
| 77 | from | from | ADP | _ | 80 author | case |
| 78 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 80 author | det |
| 79 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 80 author | amod |
| 80 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 translated | conj |
| 81 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 translated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | translate | past · passive | Miss | all stories | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | adapt | participle | Miss not said here | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do | participle | Moti not said here | the Pushtoo language | by Major Campbell | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | hunt | past | Brave | Wolves | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme | ||||
| 5 | do | past · passive | Miss Harding | Topelius | with Little Lasse and the Raspberry Worm | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | punish | the Jogi | nom punishment «act transitive»: poss=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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