The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 32
One night she contrived not to drink any of it, though she pretended to do so; and she was wakeful enough in the morning, and saw her husband passing out through a panel in the wainscot, though she kept her eyelids nearly closed.
Who acts: joy, husband · What happens: contrive, not drink, pretend, do, be, see · To what, where: any, husband, panel, eyelids
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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 night | nummod |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 contrived | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 contrived | nsubj |
| 4 | contrived | contrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 drink | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 drink | mark |
| 7 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 contrived | xcomp |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 drink | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 any | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pretended | punct |
| 12 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 14 pretended | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pretended | nsubj |
| 14 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 drink | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 pretended | xcomp |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 do | advmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 wakeful | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 wakeful | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 wakeful | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 wakeful | cop |
| 22 | wakeful | wakeful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 contrived | conj |
| 23 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 22 wakeful | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 morning | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 morning | det |
| 26 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wakeful | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 saw | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 saw | cc |
| 29 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 contrived | parataxis |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 husband | nmod:poss |
| 31 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 saw | obj |
| 32 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 saw | xcomp |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 passing | compound:prt |
| 34 | through | through | ADP | _ | 36 panel | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 panel | det |
| 36 | panel | panel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 passing | obl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 wainscot | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 wainscot | det |
| 39 | wainscot | wainscot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 passing | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 kept | punct |
| 41 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 43 kept | mark |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 kept | nsubj |
| 43 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 saw | conj |
| 44 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 eyelids | nmod:poss |
| 45 | eyelids | eyelid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 kept | obj |
| 46 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 47 closed | advmod |
| 47 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 kept | advcl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 contrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contrive | past | joy | night | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not drink | to-infinitive | joy not said here | any | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pretend | past | joy | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | joy not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | joy | morning | enough, wakeful property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | see | past | joy's husband | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | pass out | gerund | joy's husband not said here | a panel | in the wainscot | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 8 | keep | past | joy | joy's eyelids | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyelid=Theme | ||||
| 9 | close | participle | joy not said here | nearly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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