The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 10
But all this took a long time, and meanwhile the Shifty Lad got down from the loft, and searched the house till he found the chest with the gold and silver in it, concealed behind a load of straw and covered with loaves of bread and a great cheese.
Who acts: this, Shifty Lad, Lad · What happens: take, get down, search, find, conceal, cover · To what, where: loft, house, chest, load
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, Shifty Lad, Lad), 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 took | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 this | det:predet |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 got | cc |
| 10 | meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 14 got | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Lad | det |
| 12 | Shifty | shifty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Lad | amod |
| 13 | Lad | Lad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 got | nsubj |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 got | advmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 loft | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 loft | det |
| 18 | loft | loft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 got | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 searched | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 searched | cc |
| 21 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 house | det |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 searched | obj |
| 24 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 26 found | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 found | nsubj |
| 26 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 searched | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 chest | det |
| 28 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 found | obj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 gold | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 gold | det |
| 31 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 found | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 silver | cc |
| 33 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 gold | conj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 it | case |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 found | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 concealed | punct |
| 37 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 searched | parataxis |
| 38 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 40 load | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 load | det |
| 40 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 concealed | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 straw | case |
| 42 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 load | nmod |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 covered | cc |
| 44 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 concealed | conj |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 loaves | case |
| 46 | loaves | loaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 covered | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 bread | case |
| 48 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 loaves | nmod |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 cheese | cc |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 cheese | det |
| 51 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 cheese | amod |
| 52 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 bread | conj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | this | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get down | past | the Shifty Lad | the loft | down, meanwhile property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | search | past | this not said here | the house | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Location | ||||
| 4 | find | past | Lad | the chest | loft | with the gold and silver | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chest=Topic | ||
| 5 | conceal | participle | a load of straw | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind load=Location | |||||
| 6 | cover | participle | with loaves of bread and a great cheese | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with loaf=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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