The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 33
But he had put it off from day to day, hoping always for a better opportunity, and now this was the end!
Who acts: man, this · What happens: put off, hope, be · To what, where: poverty, end
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, this), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 put | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 put | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | aux |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 put | obj |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 put | compound:prt |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 day | case |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 day | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hoping | punct |
| 12 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 put | advcl |
| 13 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 hoping | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 opportunity | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 opportunity | det |
| 16 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 opportunity | amod |
| 17 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hoping | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 end | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 end | cc |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 end | advmod |
| 21 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 end | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 end | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 end | det |
| 24 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 opportunity | conj |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put off | past · perfect | man | poverty | day | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | |||
| 2 | hope | gerund | man not said here | for a better opportunity and the end; always property | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for opportunity=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | this | the end | now | tree rules |
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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