The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 133
They came to a shore where it was all so cool and familiar and friendly.
Who acts: lions, shore · What happens: come, be
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lions, shore), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 shore | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 shore | det |
| 5 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cool | obl |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 cool | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cool | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cool | cop |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 cool | advmod |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 cool | advmod |
| 11 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 came | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 familiar | cc |
| 13 | familiar | familiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cool | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 friendly | cc |
| 15 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cool | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | lions = lion | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | shore | to a shore; all, cool property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | shore not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be | shore not said here | 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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