The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 62
Now, there was on the shore of Europe a real boat, father’s own, a beautiful white-painted boat, and Little Lasse got into it.
Who acts: Little · What happens: be, paint, get · To what, where: shore, boat
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 (Little), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 was | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 shore | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shore | det |
| 7 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Europe | case |
| 9 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 shore | nmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 boat | det |
| 11 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 boat | amod |
| 12 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shore | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 own | punct |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 own | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 father | case |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 boat | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 boat | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 boat | det |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 boat | amod |
| 20 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 painted | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 white | punct |
| 22 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 boat | amod |
| 23 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 boat | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 got | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 got | cc |
| 26 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 got | nsubj |
| 27 | Lasse | Lasse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Little | flat |
| 28 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 was | parataxis |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 it | case |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 got | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the shore of Europe and a real boat and a beautiful painted boat; there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Location | ||||
| 2 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | get | past | Little | boat | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into it=Destination |
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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