The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 77
So he entered and found food and wine on the table, but no man, for the house belonged to some robbers, who were still away at their wicked business.
Who acts: son, man, robbers · What happens: enter, find, belong, be · To what, where: food, table, wicked business
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 (son, man, robbers), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 entered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 found | cc |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entered | conj |
| 6 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wine | cc |
| 8 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 food | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 table | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 table | det |
| 11 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 belonged | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 belonged | cc |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 belonged | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 house | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 house | det |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 man | conj |
| 20 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entered | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 robbers | case |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 robbers | det |
| 23 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 belonged | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 away | punct |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 away | nsubj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 away | cop |
| 27 | still | still | ADV | _ | 28 away | advmod |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 robbers | advmod |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 business | case |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 business | nmod:poss |
| 31 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 business | amod |
| 32 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 away | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | son | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | son not said here | food and wine | the table | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic | |||
| 3 | belong | past | no man and the house | to some robbers | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | some robbers | men's wicked business | still | away 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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