The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 58
They were a pure joy till bedtime, but then, and later, were not wholly a source of unmixed pleasure.
Who acts: stories · What happens: be, not be, unmix · To what, where: pure joy, source
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 (stories), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 joy | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 joy | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 joy | det |
| 4 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 joy | amod |
| 5 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | till | till | ADP | _ | 7 bedtime | case |
| 7 | bedtime | bedtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 joy | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 source | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 source | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 later | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 later | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 later | cc |
| 13 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 source | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 later | punct |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 source | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 source | advmod |
| 17 | wholly | wholly | ADV | _ | 19 source | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 source | det |
| 19 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 joy | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 pleasure | case |
| 21 | unmixed | unmix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 pleasure | amod |
| 22 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 source | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 joy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | stories = story | a pure joy but a source | till bedtime | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not is a | past | stories = story not said here | a source | of unmixed pleasure; late, wholly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | unmix | participle | tree rules |
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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