The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 109
But there’s some people that couldn’t be good-natured if they tried, and not a bit civiller was the new messenger than the old, and when the king opened the carriage door a second time, it’s shower of mud that came down on him.
Who acts: people, bit civiller, king, mud · What happens: not nature, try, be, open, come down · To what, where: people, new messenger, carriage door
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, bit civiller, king, mud), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 ’s | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 ’s | expl |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 people | det |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ’s | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 natured | obj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 natured | aux |
| 8 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 natured | advmod |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 natured | aux:pass |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 natured | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 good | punct |
| 12 | natured | nature | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 people | acl:relcl |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 tried | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 tried | nsubj |
| 15 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 natured | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 messenger | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 messenger | cc |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 civiller | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 civiller | det |
| 20 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 civiller | compound |
| 21 | civiller | civiller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 messenger | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 messenger | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 messenger | det |
| 24 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 messenger | amod |
| 25 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ’s | obl |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 28 old | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 old | det |
| 28 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 messenger | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 opened | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 opened | cc |
| 31 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 opened | advmod |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 king | det |
| 33 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 opened | nsubj |
| 34 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ’s | parataxis |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 door | det |
| 36 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 door | compound |
| 37 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 opened | obj |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 time | det |
| 39 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 40 time | amod |
| 40 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 opened | obl:unmarked |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 ’s | punct |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 ’s | nsubj |
| 43 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ’s | conj |
| 44 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 ’s | obj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 mud | case |
| 46 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 shower | nmod |
| 47 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 48 came | nsubj |
| 48 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 mud | acl:relcl |
| 49 | down | down | ADV | _ | 48 came | advmod |
| 50 | on | on | ADP | _ | 51 him | case |
| 51 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 came | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’s | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not nature | could · passive | some people | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | try a condition, not said to happen | past | people | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | a bit civiller | the new messenger | than the old | tree rules | |||
| 4 | open | past | the king | the carriage door | time | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||
| 5 | come down | past | mud | on king; down property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Location |
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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