The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 22
At last they were near the castle where the other sister lived; and there she was, waiting for them under a high hedge, and a fine steed under her.
Who acts: steeds, other sister, sister · What happens: be, live, wait · To what, where: last castle, high hedge
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 (steeds, other sister, sister), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 7 castle | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 castle | amod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 castle | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 castle | cop |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 castle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 castle | det |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lived | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 lived | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sister | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sister | amod |
| 11 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lived | nsubj |
| 12 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 there | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 there | cc |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 lived | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 waiting | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 waiting | aux |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 waiting | punct |
| 19 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 lived | advcl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 waiting | obl |
| 22 | under | under | ADP | _ | 25 hedge | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 hedge | det |
| 24 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hedge | amod |
| 25 | hedge | hedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 waiting | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 her | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 her | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 steed | det |
| 29 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 steed | amod |
| 30 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 her | nsubj |
| 31 | under | under | ADP | _ | 32 her | case |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lived | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | steeds = steed | the last castle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | past | the other sister | there | under wind | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under she=Location | |||
| 3 | wait | past · progressive | sister | a high hedge | for steeds = steed | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under hedge=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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