The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 66
Our wives are all lazy and grumbling, and make our lives a burden.
Who acts: wives · What happens: be, grumble, make · To what, where: lives
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 (wives), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wives | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lazy | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lazy | cop |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 lazy | advmod |
| 5 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 grumbling | cc |
| 7 | grumbling | grumble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 lazy | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 make | cc |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 lazy | conj |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 lives | nmod:poss |
| 12 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 make | obj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 burden | det |
| 14 | burden | burden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lazy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Our wives | all, lazy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grumble speech: other | gerund | Our wives not said here | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | Our wives not said here | our lives | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset life=Product |
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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