The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 17
But he got no reply, and was only hurried through the streets to the court-house, where his brother, the muleteer, and the farmer had just arrived, all as angry as ever, all talking at once, till the judge entered and ordered them to be silent.
Who acts: man, all, judge · What happens: get, hurry, arrive, talk, enter, order · To what, where: reply, streets, farmer, house
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, all, judge), 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 | _ | 3 got | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 reply | det |
| 5 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hurried | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hurried | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hurried | aux:pass |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 hurried | advmod |
| 10 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 got | conj |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 streets | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 streets | det |
| 13 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hurried | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 house | det |
| 16 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 house | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 court | punct |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hurried | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 brother | punct |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 brother | advmod |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 brother | nmod:poss |
| 22 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 house | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 muleteer | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 muleteer | det |
| 25 | muleteer | muleteer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 house | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 arrived | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 arrived | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 farmer | det |
| 29 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 arrived | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 arrived | aux |
| 31 | just | just | ADV | _ | 32 arrived | advmod |
| 32 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 got | parataxis |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 angry | punct |
| 34 | all | all | ADV | _ | 36 angry | advmod |
| 35 | as | as | ADV | _ | 36 angry | advmod |
| 36 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 arrived | conj |
| 37 | as | as | ADP | _ | 38 ever | case |
| 38 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 36 angry | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 talking | punct |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 talking | nsubj |
| 41 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 got | advcl |
| 42 | at | at | ADP | _ | 43 once | case |
| 43 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 41 talking | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 entered | punct |
| 45 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 48 entered | mark |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 judge | det |
| 47 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 entered | nsubj |
| 48 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 ordered | cc |
| 50 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 entered | conj |
| 51 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 ordered | obj |
| 52 | to | to | PART | _ | 54 silent | mark |
| 53 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 54 silent | cop |
| 54 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 ordered | xcomp |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | man | no reply | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reply=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hurry | past · passive | man not said here | the streets | to the court house and man's brother and the muleteer | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: to house=Destination | |||
| 3 | arrive | past · perfect · passive | the farmer | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | talk | gerund | all | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | enter | past | the judge | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | order | past | the judge not said here | house | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | the judge not said here | silent property | 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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