The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 25
In time she told them all that had happened to her, and they didn’t know what to advise her to do.
Who acts: lady, that, sisters · What happens: tell, happen, not know, advise, do · To what, where: sisters, lady · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, that, sisters), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 time | case |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | iobj |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 happened | det:predet |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 happened | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 happened | aux |
| 9 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 told | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 happened | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 know | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | aux |
| 16 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 know | advmod |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | conj |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 advise | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 advise | mark |
| 20 | advise | advise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 know | ccomp |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 advise | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 do | mark |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 advise | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | lady | sisters = sister | time | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | that | lady | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | sisters = sister | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | advise speech: other | to-infinitive | lady | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | lady not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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