The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 11
‘Ah, it was not all for buying or selling that your handsome son has been coming to town every week these many months past.
Who acts: more, handsome son · What happens: buy, sell, come · To what, where: town
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (more, handsome son), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 buying | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 9 buying | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 buying | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 buying | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 all | advmod |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 buying | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 buying | mark |
| 9 | buying | buy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 selling | cc |
| 11 | selling | sell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 buying | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 coming | mark |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 son | amod |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 coming | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 coming | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 coming | aux |
| 18 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 buying | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 town | case |
| 20 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 coming | obl |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 week | det |
| 22 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 coming | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 25 months | det |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 months | amod |
| 25 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 coming | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | past | past | ADV | _ | 18 coming | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 buying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past · progressive | more | all property | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sell | gerund | more not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | present · perfect · progressive | your handsome son | town | month; week | past property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_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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