The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 77
Some say it was the fatigue that killed her, but whichever it was, Mrs. Connor was decently buried with her own people.
Who acts: Some, grandchild, fatigue · What happens: say, be, kill, bury · To what, where: fatigue, woman, Mrs. · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Some, grandchild, fatigue), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 say | nsubj |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fatigue | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fatigue | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fatigue | det |
| 6 | fatigue | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 say | ccomp |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 killed | nsubj |
| 8 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fatigue | acl:relcl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 killed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 buried | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 buried | cc |
| 12 | whichever | whichever | SCONJ | _ | 14 was | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 was | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 buried | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 was | punct |
| 16 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | Connor | Connor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Mrs. | flat |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 buried | aux:pass |
| 19 | decently | decently | ADV | _ | 20 buried | advmod |
| 20 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 say | advcl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 people | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 people | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 people | amod |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 buried | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Some | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | grandchild | the fatigue | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kill | past | the fatigue | woman | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | be | past | grandchild | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bury | past · passive | Mrs. | with woman's own people; decently property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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