The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 10
Down through Iveragh, Maurice Connor and his mother were taking their rounds.
Who acts: Maurice Connor · What happens: take · To what, where: rounds, Iveragh
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maurice Connor), 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 | Down | down | ADV | _ | 11 taking | advmod |
| 2 | through | through | ADP | _ | 3 Iveragh | case |
| 3 | Iveragh | Iveragh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 taking | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Connor | punct |
| 5 | Maurice | Maurice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Connor | compound |
| 6 | Connor | Connor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 taking | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 mother | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Connor | conj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 taking | aux |
| 11 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 rounds | nmod:poss |
| 13 | rounds | round | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 taking | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 taking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · progressive | Maurice Connor and Iveragh's mother | Connor's rounds | Iveragh | down property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent round=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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