The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 33
William thought it must have strayed from the flock, and that he had better take it home with him till he could discover its owner.
Who acts: William · What happens: think, stray, take, discover · To what, where: bank, flock, owner · 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 (William), 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 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 strayed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 strayed | aux |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 strayed | aux |
| 6 | strayed | stray | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 flock | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 flock | det |
| 9 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 strayed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 take | cc |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 had | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | aux |
| 15 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 had | xcomp |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 take | advmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 take | obl |
| 21 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 24 discover | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 discover | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 discover | aux |
| 24 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 take | advcl |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 owner | nmod:poss |
| 26 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 discover | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | William | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stray | must · perfect · passive | bank | the flock | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | past | bank | with William; home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | discover | could | William | bank's owner | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owner=Topic |
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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