The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 57
The farmers were so astonished at her restoration, that it was some time before they could speak.
Who acts: farmers, whistle · What happens: be, speak · To what, where: restoration, time · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmers, whistle), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 farmers | det |
| 2 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 astonished | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 astonished | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 astonished | advmod |
| 5 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 restoration | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 restoration | nmod:poss |
| 8 | restoration | restoration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 astonished | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 time | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 time | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 time | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 time | cop |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 astonished | conj |
| 15 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 18 speak | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 speak | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 speak | aux |
| 18 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 time | acl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the farmers | woman's restoration | astonished property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | whistle | some time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | could | farmers = farmer | some time not said here | tree rules |
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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