The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 55

She had never been there before, and when she had finished her shopping, she thought she would pay a visit to her unknown sister-in-law, and rest for a bit.

Who acts: wife · What happens: have, not be, finish, think, pay, rest · To what, where: shopping, visit · 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 (wife), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 there	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 there	cop
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 had	advmod
6	before	before	ADV	_	2 had	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 finished	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 finished	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 finished	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 finished	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 finished	aux
12	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 had	advcl
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 shopping	nmod:poss
14	shopping	shopping	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 finished	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thought	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thought	nsubj
17	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 pay	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 pay	aux
20	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 thought	ccomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 visit	det
22	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pay	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 sister	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 sister	nmod:poss
25	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sister	amod
26	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pay	obl
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 law	punct
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 law	case
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 in	punct
30	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sister	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 rest	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 rest	cc
33	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 pay	conj
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 bit	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 bit	det
36	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 rest	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	wife		before property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not is	participle			there property	tree rules
3	finish	past · perfect	wife	wife's shopping		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector shopping=Eventuality
4	think speech: other	past	wife			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	pay	would	wife	a visit	to wife's unknown sister in law	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset
6	rest	infinitive	wife not said here		for a bit	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	shop		wife			nom shopping «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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