The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 27
Well, the mother and sisters consulted a wise woman that used to bring eggs to the castle, for they had great faith in her wisdom.
Who acts: mother, wise woman, sisters · What happens: consult, use, bring, have · To what, where: wise woman, eggs, castle, great faith, wisdom
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 (mother, wise woman, 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 consulted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mother | det |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 consulted | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sisters | cc |
| 6 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 mother | conj |
| 7 | consulted | consult | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 woman | det |
| 9 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 woman | amod |
| 10 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 consulted | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 used | nsubj |
| 12 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 woman | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 bring | mark |
| 14 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 used | xcomp |
| 15 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bring | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 castle | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 castle | det |
| 18 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bring | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 had | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 had | case |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 consulted | conj |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 faith | amod |
| 24 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 wisdom | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 wisdom | nmod:poss |
| 27 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 faith | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 consulted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consult | past | the mother and sisters | a wise woman | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme | ||||
| 2 | use | past | a wise woman | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | bring | to-infinitive | a wise woman not said here | eggs | the castle | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme to castle=Destination | |||
| 4 | have | past | sisters = sister | great faith | mother's wisdom | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Patient |
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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