The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 96

‘Good-morning to you,’ said the woman as she reached the place where the Black Gallows Bird lived when he was not away on his business.

Who acts: woman, Black Gallows, sun · What happens: say, reach, live, not be · To what, where: place, business · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (woman, Black Gallows, sun), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 morning	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 morning	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 morning	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 morning	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 reached	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 reached	nsubj
14	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 place	det
16	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 reached	obj
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 lived	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Gallows	det
19	Black	Black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Gallows	amod
20	Gallows	Gallows	PROPN	Number=Plur	22 lived	nsubj
21	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 lived	nsubj
22	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 place	acl
23	when	when	SCONJ	_	27 away	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 away	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 away	cop
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 away	advmod
27	away	away	ADV	_	22 lived	advcl
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 business	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 business	nmod:poss
30	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 away	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	reach	past	woman	the place			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme
3	live	past	the Black Gallows				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not is	past	sun		sun's business	away property	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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