The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 72
The oars were locked up in the boat-house, and Little Lasse had not noticed that the boat was empty.
Who acts: Little Lasse, boat · What happens: lock up, not notice, be · To what, where: oars, boat house
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 Lasse, boat), 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 | 2 oars | det |
| 2 | oars | oar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 locked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 locked | aux:pass |
| 4 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 locked | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 8 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 house | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 boat | punct |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 locked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 noticed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 noticed | cc |
| 13 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Lasse | amod |
| 14 | Lasse | Lasse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 noticed | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 noticed | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 noticed | advmod |
| 17 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 locked | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 empty | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 boat | det |
| 20 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 empty | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 empty | cop |
| 22 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 noticed | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 locked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock up | past · passive | the oars | the boat house | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not notice | past · perfect | Little Lasse | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the boat | empty property | 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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