The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 17

‘There is not much more to tell,’ replied the landlady, for she suddenly remembered that she must prepare supper for the hungry men who always stopped at the inn on market days, before starting for home, ‘but one fine morning they both went to the little church on top of the hill, and were married.

Who acts: more, Daughter, hungry men, keeper · What happens: be, tell, reply, remember, prepare, stop · To what, where: landlady, supper, inn, little church · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Daughter, hungry men, keeper), 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	_	3 is	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 replied	ccomp
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 more	advmod
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 is	nsubj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 tell	mark
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 more	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct
11	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 landlady	det
13	landlady	landlady	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 replied	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 remembered	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 remembered	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 remembered	nsubj
17	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	18 remembered	advmod
18	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 replied	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 prepare	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 prepare	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 prepare	aux
22	prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 remembered	ccomp
23	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 prepare	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	27 men	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 men	det
26	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 men	amod
27	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 prepare	obl
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 stopped	nsubj
29	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	30 stopped	advmod
30	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 men	acl:relcl
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 inn	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 inn	det
33	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stopped	obl
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 days	case
35	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 days	compound
36	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 stopped	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 starting	punct
38	before	before	SCONJ	_	39 starting	mark
39	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 remembered	advcl
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 home	case
41	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 starting	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 went	punct
43	‘	'	PUNCT	_	50 went	punct
44	but	but	CCONJ	_	50 went	cc
45	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 morning	nummod
46	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 morning	amod
47	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 went	obl:unmarked
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 went	nsubj
49	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	50 went	advmod
50	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 starting	conj
51	to	to	ADP	_	54 church	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 church	det
53	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 church	amod
54	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 went	obl
55	on	on	ADP	_	56 top	case
56	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 church	nmod
57	of	of	ADP	_	59 hill	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 hill	det
59	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 top	nmod
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 married	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 married	cc
62	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 married	aux:pass
63	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 went	conj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	more		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	more not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	reply speech: assert	past		the landlady				tree rules
4	remember	past	Daughter				suddenly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	prepare	must	Daughter	supper			for the hungry men	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent supper=Product for man=Beneficiary
6	stop	past	the hungry men		the inn	day	always property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at inn=Location
7	start	gerund	Daughter not said here				for home	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
8	go	past	keeper		the little church on top of the hill	morning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location
9	marry	past · passive	keeper not said here					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»

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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