The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 85
One day, however, the old man went to the city on business, which he had not done for three years at least.
Who acts: old man, father · What happens: go, not do · To what, where: business
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 (old man, father), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 city | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 city | det |
| 12 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 business | case |
| 14 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 done | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 done | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 done | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 done | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 done | advmod |
| 20 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 business | acl:relcl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 years | case |
| 22 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 years | nummod |
| 23 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 done | obl |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 least | case |
| 25 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 years | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the old man | business | day | to the city; however property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | not do | past · perfect | father | business | year | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
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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