The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 85
It was a big fellow that took service with me yesterday.’
Who acts: Faith, big fellow · What happens: be, take · To what, where: big fellow, service
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 (Faith, big fellow), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fellow | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fellow | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fellow | det |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fellow | amod |
| 5 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 took | nsubj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fellow | acl:relcl |
| 8 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 took | obl |
| 11 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fellow | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 fellow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Faith | a big fellow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | a big fellow | service | yesterday | with me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Theme |
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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