The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 21
When the farm-house was reached, the man led the animal to the stable, and then went to look for his son.
Who acts: man · What happens: reach, lead, go, look · To what, where: farm house, animal, stable
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 (man), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 reached | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 3 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 house | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 farm | punct |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reached | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reached | aux:pass |
| 7 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 led | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 reached | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 led | nsubj |
| 11 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 animal | det |
| 13 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 led | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 stable | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stable | det |
| 16 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 led | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 went | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 went | advmod |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 led | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 look | mark |
| 22 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 went | xcomp |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 son | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 son | nmod:poss |
| 25 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 look | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · passive | the farm house | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lead | past | the man | the animal | the stable | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent animal=Theme to stable=Destination | |||
| 3 | go | past | the man not said here | then | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | the man not said here | for man's son | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for son=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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