The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 73
The lights turned out to have been placed there by a farmer, who had planned to have a particularly good supper as it was his wife’s birthday, and bade the rich man enter and sit down, while he himself took the horse to the stable.
Who acts: lights, farmer, supper, bade, man · What happens: turn out, place, plan, have, be, enter · To what, where: farmer, good supper, horse, 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 (lights, farmer, supper, bade), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lights | det |
| 2 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 turned | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 placed | mark |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 placed | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 placed | aux:pass |
| 8 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 turned | advcl |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 placed | advmod |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 farmer | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 farmer | det |
| 12 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 placed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 planned | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 planned | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 planned | aux |
| 16 | planned | plan | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 farmer | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 have | mark |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 planned | xcomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 supper | det |
| 20 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 21 good | advmod |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 supper | amod |
| 22 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 birthday | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 birthday | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 birthday | cop |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 wife | nmod:poss |
| 27 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 wife | case |
| 29 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 enter | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 enter | cc |
| 32 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 enter | nsubj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 man | det |
| 34 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 man | amod |
| 35 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 enter | nsubj |
| 36 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 turned | parataxis |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 sit | cc |
| 38 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 enter | conj |
| 39 | down | down | ADP | _ | 38 sit | compound:prt |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 took | punct |
| 41 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 44 took | mark |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 took | nsubj |
| 43 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 42 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 44 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 sit | conj |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 horse | det |
| 46 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 took | obj |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 stable | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 stable | det |
| 49 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 took | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn out | past | the lights | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | place | to-infinitive · perfect · passive | a farmer | there | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | plan | past · perfect · passive | a farmer | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | a good supper | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient | |||||
| 5 | is | past | supper | as farmer's wife's birthday | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | enter | infinitive | bade | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | sit down | infinitive | bade not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | take | past | man | the horse | the stable | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme to stable=Destination |
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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