The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 71
That day twelvemonth the piece of burned wood came ashore in Trafraska.
Who acts: day twelvemonth · What happens: burn, come · To what, where: Trafraska
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 (day twelvemonth), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 twelvemonth | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 twelvemonth | compound |
| 3 | twelvemonth | twelvemonth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 piece | det |
| 5 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 wood | case |
| 7 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 wood | amod |
| 8 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 piece | nmod |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Trafraska | case |
| 12 | Trafraska | Trafraska | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | participle | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | come | past | that day twelvemonth | Trafraska | ashore property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in trafraska=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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