The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 62
This night they came to where the youngest baby was, and the next morning, just before sunrise, the prince spoke to her for the last time.
Who acts: pearls, prince · What happens: come, speak · To what, where: sunrise, joy · 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 (pearls, 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 where | case |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 came | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 baby | det |
| 8 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 baby | amod |
| 9 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 was | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 where | advcl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 morning | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 morning | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 morning | det |
| 14 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 morning | amod |
| 15 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sunrise | punct |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 sunrise | advmod |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 sunrise | case |
| 19 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 spoke | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 prince | det |
| 22 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 spoke | nsubj |
| 23 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 sunrise | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 spoke | obl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 time | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 time | det |
| 28 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 time | amod |
| 29 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 spoke | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | pearls = pearl | morning; night; sunrise | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to where=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | the prince | sunrise not said here | joy | time | 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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