The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 122
Well, that day went by, and when the next came, says Seven Inches to him, ‘Now, you’ll have to set out that way,’ pointing to the sun, ‘and you’ll find the second princess in a giant’s castle this evening, when you’ll be tired and hungry, and the eldest princess to-morrow evening; and you may as well bring them here with you.
Who acts: day, next, you · What happens: go by, come, say, have, set out, point · To what, where: Seven Inches, way, sun, second princess, castle, inches · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, next, you), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 says | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 says | cc |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 came | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 next | det |
| 11 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 says | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 14 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | parataxis |
| 15 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 Inches | nummod |
| 16 | Inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 says | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 Inches | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 have | punct |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 have | punct |
| 21 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 have | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Now | punct |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 have | nsubj |
| 24 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 have | aux |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 says | ccomp |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 set | mark |
| 27 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 have | xcomp |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 set | compound:prt |
| 29 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 way | det |
| 30 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 set | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 pointing | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | SYM | _ | 33 pointing | punct |
| 33 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 have | advcl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 sun | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 sun | det |
| 36 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 pointing | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 find | punct |
| 38 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 42 find | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 find | cc |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 find | nsubj |
| 41 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 find | aux |
| 42 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 have | parataxis |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 princess | det |
| 44 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 45 princess | amod |
| 45 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 find | obj |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 castle | case |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 giant | det |
| 48 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 castle | nmod:poss |
| 49 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 48 giant | case |
| 50 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 princess | nmod |
| 51 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 52 evening | det |
| 52 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 castle | obl:unmarked |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 tired | punct |
| 54 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 58 tired | mark |
| 55 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 58 tired | nsubj |
| 56 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 58 tired | aux |
| 57 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 58 tired | cop |
| 58 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 princess | parataxis |
| 59 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 60 hungry | cc |
| 60 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 58 tired | conj |
| 61 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 65 princess | punct |
| 62 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 65 princess | cc |
| 63 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 65 princess | det |
| 64 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 65 princess | amod |
| 65 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 tired | conj |
| 66 | to | to | ADP | _ | 69 evening | case |
| 67 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 66 to | punct |
| 68 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 69 evening | compound |
| 69 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 princess | nmod |
| 70 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 76 bring | punct |
| 71 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 76 bring | cc |
| 72 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 76 bring | nsubj |
| 73 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 76 bring | aux |
| 74 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 76 bring | cc |
| 75 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 74 as | fixed |
| 76 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | conj |
| 77 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 76 bring | obj |
| 78 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 76 bring | advmod |
| 79 | with | with | ADP | _ | 80 you | case |
| 80 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 76 bring | obl |
| 81 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go by | past | that day | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the next | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | Seven Inches | to marble | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | future | you | now | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | set out | to-infinitive | you not said here | that way | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | point | gerund | you not said here | the sun | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to sun=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | find | future | you | the second princess | a giant's castle | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic | |||
| 8 | is | future | you | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | be | you not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 10 | bring | may | you | inches = inch | here | with you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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