The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 9
When the dreams had sung their song they skipped away, and Nukku Matti carried Lasse back to the boat.
Who acts: dreams, Nukku · What happens: sing, skip away, carry back · To what, where: dreams, Lasse, boat
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 (dreams, Nukku), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 sung | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dreams | det |
| 3 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sung | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sung | aux |
| 5 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 skipped | advcl |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 song | nmod:poss |
| 7 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sung | obj |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 skipped | nsubj |
| 9 | skipped | skip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 skipped | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 carried | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 carried | cc |
| 13 | Nukku | Nukku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 carried | nsubj |
| 14 | Matti | Matti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Nukku | flat |
| 15 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 skipped | conj |
| 16 | Lasse | Lasse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 carried | obj |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 carried | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 boat | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 boat | det |
| 20 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carried | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 skipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past · perfect · passive | the dreams | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary song=Theme | |||||
| 2 | skip away | past | dreams = dream | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry back | past | Nukku | Lasse | the boat | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lasse=Theme to boat=Destination | |||
| 4 | sing | dreams = dream | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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