The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 78
As has been said before, Moti was a country lad, and was accustomed to work in his father’s garden.
Who acts: Moti · What happens: say, be, accustom, work · To what, where: country lad · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moti), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 said | mark |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 said | aux:pass |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 lad | advcl |
| 5 | before | before | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 7 | Moti | Moti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 lad | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lad | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 lad | det |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lad | compound |
| 11 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 accustomed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 accustomed | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 accustomed | aux:pass |
| 15 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 lad | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 work | mark |
| 17 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 accustomed | xcomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 garden | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 father | nmod:poss |
| 20 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 garden | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 father | case |
| 22 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 work | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · perfect · passive | Moti not said here | before property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Moti | a country lad | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | accustom | past · passive | a country lad not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | work | to-infinitive | in Moti's father's garden | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in garden=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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