The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 75
The head footman was the most troublesome, and at last she invited him to come and take tea with her.
Who acts: head footman, woman, folk · What happens: be, invite, come, take · To what, where: folk, tea
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 (head footman, woman, folk), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 footman | det |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 footman | compound |
| 3 | footman | footman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 troublesome | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 troublesome | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 troublesome | det |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 troublesome | advmod |
| 7 | troublesome | troublesome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 last | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 last | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 last | case |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 troublesome | conj |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 invited | nsubj |
| 13 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 last | acl:relcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 invited | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 come | mark |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 invited | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 take | cc |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 come | conj |
| 19 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 take | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 troublesome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the head footman | troublesome property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the head footman not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | invite | past | woman | folk | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | folk not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | take | infinitive | folk not said here | tea | with woman | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Theme |
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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