The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 48
But again he left the prize unclaimed, and so it happened on the third day, when it seemed as if all the people in the kingdom were gathered to see the race, for they were filled with curiosity to know who the winner could be.
Who acts: race, it · What happens: leave, happen, seem, gather, see, fill · To what, where: prize, people, race · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (race, it), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 left | cc |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 left | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 left | nsubj |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prize | det |
| 6 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obj |
| 7 | unclaimed | unclaimed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 left | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 happened | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 happened | cc |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 happened | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 happened | nsubj |
| 12 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 day | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 day | det |
| 15 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 day | amod |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 happened | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 seemed | punct |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 seemed | advmod |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 seemed | nsubj |
| 20 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 happened | parataxis |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 gathered | mark |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 gathered | mark |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 people | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 people | det |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 gathered | nsubj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 kingdom | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 kingdom | det |
| 28 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 people | nmod |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 gathered | aux:pass |
| 30 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 seemed | ccomp |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 see | mark |
| 32 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 gathered | xcomp |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 race | det |
| 34 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 see | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 filled | punct |
| 36 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 39 filled | mark |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 filled | nsubj |
| 38 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 filled | aux:pass |
| 39 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 seemed | conj |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 curiosity | case |
| 41 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 filled | obl |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 know | mark |
| 43 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 filled | advcl |
| 44 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 48 be | nsubj |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 winner | det |
| 46 | winner | winner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 be | nsubj |
| 47 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 be | aux |
| 48 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 know | ccomp |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | race | the prize | again | unclaimed property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Theme | ||
| 2 | happen | past | it | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | gather a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | all people in the kingdom | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | the race | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer race=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | fill | past · passive | people | with curiosity | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with curiosity=Instrument | ||||
| 7 | know | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 8 | can | could | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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