The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 97
Then the deer entered, and the fisher’s son was restored to life, and bidding him follow her, she ran on to a little white cottage where dwelt an old woman and her son, who was thin and dark.
Who acts: deer, life, son · What happens: enter, restore, bid, follow, run on, dwell · To what, where: son, life, little white cottage, old woman
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 (deer, life, son), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 entered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 deer | det |
| 3 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 entered | nsubj |
| 4 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 restored | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 restored | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fisher | det |
| 8 | fisher | fisher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 fisher | case |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 restored | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 restored | aux:pass |
| 12 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 entered | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 life | case |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 restored | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bidding | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bidding | cc |
| 17 | bidding | bid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 entered | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 bidding | obj |
| 19 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 bidding | xcomp |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 follow | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ran | punct |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ran | nsubj |
| 23 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 entered | conj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 ran | compound:prt |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 cottage | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 cottage | det |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 cottage | amod |
| 28 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 cottage | amod |
| 29 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ran | obl |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 dwelt | advmod |
| 31 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 cottage | acl |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 woman | det |
| 33 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 woman | amod |
| 34 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dwelt | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 son | cc |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 son | nmod:poss |
| 37 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 woman | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 thin | punct |
| 39 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 thin | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 thin | cop |
| 41 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 son | acl:relcl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 dark | cc |
| 43 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 thin | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | the deer | then | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | restore | past · passive | the fisher's son | life | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to life=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | bid | gerund | the deer not said here | son | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | follow | infinitive | the deer not said here | life | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 5 | run on | past | life | a little white cottage | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to cottage=Destination | ||||
| 6 | dwell | participle | a old woman and life's son | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme woman=Location | |||||
| 7 | is | past | life's son | thin property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | be | life's son not said here | 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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