The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 31
Now she began to think how she never minded her husband leaving her in the morning, and how she never found him neglecting to give her a sweet drink out of a gold cup just as she was going to bed.
Who acts: joy, husband · What happens: begin, think, not mind, leave, neglect, not give · To what, where: husband, joy, sweet drink, gold cup, bed · 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 (joy, husband), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 began | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 think | mark |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 minded | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 minded | nsubj |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 minded | advmod |
| 9 | minded | mind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | ccomp |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 husband | nmod:poss |
| 11 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 minded | obj |
| 12 | leaving | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 husband | acl |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 leaving | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 morning | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 morning | det |
| 16 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leaving | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 neglecting | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 neglecting | cc |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 found | advmod |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 found | nsubj |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 found | advmod |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 neglecting | aux |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 found | obj |
| 24 | neglecting | neglect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 began | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 give | mark |
| 26 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 neglecting | xcomp |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 give | iobj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 drink | det |
| 29 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 drink | amod |
| 30 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 give | obj |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 35 cup | case |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 cup | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 cup | det |
| 34 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 cup | compound |
| 35 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 give | obl |
| 36 | just | just | ADV | _ | 40 going | advmod |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 going | mark |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 going | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 going | aux |
| 40 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 give | advcl |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 bed | case |
| 42 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 going | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | joy | now | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | joy not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not mind | past | joy | joy's husband | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leave | gerund | joy's husband not said here | joy | morning | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 5 | neglect | past | joy not said here | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | not give | to-infinitive | joy not said here | a sweet drink | joy | a gold cup | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient drink=Theme | ||
| 7 | go | past · progressive | joy | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location |
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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