The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 28
But while they were shedding tears for them, Seven Inches came in, and touched them with his rod.
Who acts: lovers, Seven Inches · What happens: shed, come in, touch · To what, where: tears, lovers
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 (lovers, Seven Inches), 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 | _ | 12 came | cc |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 shedding | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 shedding | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shedding | aux |
| 5 | shedding | shed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 came | advcl |
| 6 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shedding | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 shedding | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 shedding | punct |
| 10 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 Inches | nummod |
| 11 | Inches | Inch | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADV | _ | 12 came | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 touched | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 touched | cc |
| 16 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 came | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 touched | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 rod | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 rod | nmod:poss |
| 20 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 touched | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shed | past · progressive | lovers = lover | tears | for tears = tear | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source | |||
| 2 | come in | past | Seven Inches | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | touch | past | Seven Inches not said here | lovers = lover | with joy's rod | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Experiencer with rod=Instrument |
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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