The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 111
The next day the same thing befell the fisher’s son, and this time the lady wept more bitterly than before, for she said it was the last chance, and she would never be allowed to come any more, for home she must go.
Who acts: same thing, lady, thing · What happens: befall, weep, say, be, not allow, come · To what, where: son, last chance, lady, home · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (same thing, lady, thing), 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 | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 befell | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thing | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thing | amod |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 befell | nsubj |
| 7 | befell | befall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fisher | det |
| 9 | fisher | fisher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 fisher | case |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 befell | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wept | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wept | cc |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wept | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lady | det |
| 17 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wept | nsubj |
| 18 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 befell | conj |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 bitterly | advmod |
| 20 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 18 wept | advmod |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 before | case |
| 22 | before | before | ADV | _ | 20 bitterly | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 said | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 said | nsubj |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 wept | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 chance | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 chance | cop |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 chance | det |
| 30 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 chance | amod |
| 31 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 said | ccomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 allowed | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 allowed | cc |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 allowed | aux |
| 36 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 38 allowed | advmod |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 allowed | aux:pass |
| 38 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 befell | conj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 come | mark |
| 40 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 allowed | xcomp |
| 41 | any | any | ADV | _ | 42 more | advmod |
| 42 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 40 come | advmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 home | punct |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 home | case |
| 45 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 come | obl |
| 46 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 go | nsubj |
| 47 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 go | aux |
| 48 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 home | acl:relcl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 befell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | befall | past | the same thing | the fisher's son | day | tree rules | |||
| 2 | weep | past | the lady | time | bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | lady | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | thing | the last chance | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not allow | would · passive | lady | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | lady not said here | for home | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | go | must | lady | home not said here | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location home=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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