The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 28
She said the only plan was to secure the bear’s skin that the prince was obliged to put on every morning, and get it burned, and then he couldn’t help being a man night and day, and the enchantment would be at an end.
Who acts: mother, only plan, skin, prince, enchantment · What happens: say, be, oblige, put, get, burn · To what, where: skin, man night, end · 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 (mother, only plan, skin, prince), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 plan | det |
| 4 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 plan | amod |
| 5 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 secure | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 secure | cop |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 secure | mark |
| 8 | secure | secure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bear | det |
| 10 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 skin | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 bear | case |
| 12 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 secure | obj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 obliged | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 obliged | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 obliged | aux:pass |
| 17 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 skin | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 put | mark |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 obliged | xcomp |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 morning | case |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 morning | det |
| 22 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 put | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 get | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 get | cc |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 secure | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 get | obj |
| 27 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 get | xcomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 help | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 help | cc |
| 30 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 help | advmod |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 help | nsubj |
| 32 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 help | aux |
| 33 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 help | advmod |
| 34 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 secure | conj |
| 35 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 night | cop |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 night | det |
| 37 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 night | compound |
| 38 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 help | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 day | cc |
| 40 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 night | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 end | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 end | cc |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 enchantment | det |
| 44 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 end | nsubj |
| 45 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 end | aux |
| 46 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 49 end | cop |
| 47 | at | at | ADP | _ | 49 end | case |
| 48 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 end | det |
| 49 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 secure | parataxis |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the only plan | secure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | oblige | past · passive | the bear's skin | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 4 | put | to-infinitive | morning | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | get | infinitive | the only plan not said here | skin | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | burn | participle | skin not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | not help | could | prince | then | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | is a | gerund | a man night and day | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | is | would | the enchantment | at a end | 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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