The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 18
Then the young man thanked her, and went to the third sister.
Who acts: young man · What happens: thank, go · To what, where: sister
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man), 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 | 5 thanked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thanked | nsubj |
| 5 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thanked | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thanked | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 sister | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sister | det |
| 12 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 sister | amod |
| 13 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the young man | sister | then | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | the young man not said here | to the third sister | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sister=Initial_Location |
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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