The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 72
One of the guests, more curious than the rest, stayed behind to examine the dress, determined, if she could, to find out the cause of the disaster.
Who acts: One · What happens: stay, examine, find out, cause · To what, where: dress, cause, disaster
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 (One), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 stayed | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 guests | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 guests | det |
| 4 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 curious | punct |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 curious | advmod |
| 7 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 guests | amod |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 rest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rest | det |
| 10 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 curious | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stayed | punct |
| 12 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 12 stayed | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 examine | mark |
| 15 | examine | examine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 stayed | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dress | det |
| 17 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 examine | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 determined | punct |
| 19 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stayed | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 find | punct |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 could | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 could | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 find | aux |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 find | punct |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 find | mark |
| 26 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 stayed | conj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 find | compound:prt |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 cause | det |
| 29 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 find | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 disaster | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 disaster | det |
| 32 | disaster | disaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 cause | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | One of the guests | behind property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | examine | to-infinitive | One of the guests not said here | the dress | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find out | could | One of the guests not said here | the cause of the disaster | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | cause | the disaster | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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