The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 55
Of course by the time he came back the two thieves had driven the bull home and killed him for meat, so the man was obliged to go to his master and confess that he had been tricked again.
Who acts: shepherd · What happens: come back, drive, kill, oblige, go, confess · To what, where: time, two thieves, shepherd, man, master
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 (shepherd), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 driven | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | acl:relcl |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 thieves | det |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 thieves | nummod |
| 11 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 driven | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 driven | aux |
| 13 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bull | det |
| 15 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 driven | obj |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 13 driven | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 killed | cc |
| 18 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 driven | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 killed | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 meat | case |
| 21 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 killed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 obliged | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 obliged | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 obliged | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 obliged | aux:pass |
| 27 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 driven | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 go | mark |
| 29 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 obliged | xcomp |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 master | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 master | nmod:poss |
| 32 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 go | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 confess | cc |
| 34 | confess | confess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 go | conj |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 tricked | mark |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 tricked | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 tricked | aux |
| 38 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 tricked | aux:pass |
| 39 | tricked | trick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 confess | advcl |
| 40 | again | again | ADV | _ | 39 tricked | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 driven | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | shepherd | the time not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drive | past · perfect · passive | the two thieves | time | home property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme bull=Destination | |||
| 3 | kill | past | shepherd | for meat | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | oblige | past · passive | the man | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | shepherd's master | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to master=Initial_Location | |||||
| 6 | confess | infinitive | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | trick | past · perfect · passive | shepherd | again | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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