The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 74
With stern faces they rose to their feet, and taking a large sack they retraced their steps to the hut.
Who acts: efforts · What happens: rise, take, retrace, step · To what, where: feet, large sack, steps
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 (efforts), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 faces | case |
| 2 | stern | stern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 faces | amod |
| 3 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rose | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rose | nsubj |
| 5 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 feet | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 feet | nmod:poss |
| 8 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rose | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 taking | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 taking | cc |
| 11 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 rose | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sack | det |
| 13 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sack | amod |
| 14 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taking | obj |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 retraced | nsubj |
| 16 | retraced | retrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sack | acl:relcl |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 steps | nmod:poss |
| 18 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 retraced | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 hut | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hut | det |
| 21 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 retraced | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | efforts = effort | efforts's feet | with stern faces | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | take | gerund | efforts = effort not said here | a large sack | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme | ||||
| 3 | retrace | past | efforts = effort | efforts's steps | to the hut | tree rules | |||
| 4 | step | efforts = effort | nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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