The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 77
Well, the evening came, and the footman walked into the lodge, and was shown to her sitting-room; for the lodge-keeper and his wife stood in great awe of her, and gave her two nice rooms for herself.
Who acts: evening, footman · What happens: come, walk, show, stand, give, awe · To what, where: lodge, sitting room, great awe, two nice rooms, woman
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 (evening, footman), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 came | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 evening | det |
| 4 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 walked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 walked | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 footman | det |
| 9 | footman | footman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 walked | nsubj |
| 10 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 lodge | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lodge | det |
| 13 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 walked | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shown | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 shown | cc |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 shown | aux:pass |
| 17 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 came | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 room | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 room | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sitting | sitting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 room | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 sitting | punct |
| 22 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shown | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 stood | punct |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 keeper | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 keeper | det |
| 26 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 keeper | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 lodge | punct |
| 28 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stood | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 wife | cc |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 wife | nmod:poss |
| 31 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 keeper | conj |
| 32 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 awe | case |
| 34 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 awe | amod |
| 35 | awe | awe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stood | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 her | case |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 awe | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 gave | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 gave | cc |
| 40 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 stood | conj |
| 41 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 gave | iobj |
| 42 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 rooms | nummod |
| 43 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 rooms | amod |
| 44 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 gave | obj |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 herself | case |
| 46 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 40 gave | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | walk | past | the footman | into the lodge result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into lodge=Result | ||||
| 3 | show | past · passive | the evening not said here | woman's sitting room | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: to room=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | the evening not said here | great awe of woman | for the lodge keeper and folk's wife | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in awe=Location | |||
| 5 | give | past | the evening not said here | two nice rooms | woman | for woman | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Recipient room=Theme for herself=Asset | ||
| 6 | awe | woman | nom awe «feeling transitive»: of=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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