The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 27
The judge could hardly conceal a smile at the story, and inquired if the wife was dead before the farmer left the house, and received for answer that he was in such a hurry for justice to be done that he had not waited to see.
Who acts: judge, wife, farmer · What happens: conceal, inquire, be, leave, receive, do · To what, where: smile, story, house, hurry
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 (judge, wife, farmer), 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 judge | det |
| 2 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 conceal | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 conceal | aux |
| 4 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 5 conceal | advmod |
| 5 | conceal | conceal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 smile | det |
| 7 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 conceal | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 story | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 story | det |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 conceal | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 inquired | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 inquired | cc |
| 13 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 conceal | parataxis |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 dead | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wife | det |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dead | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 dead | cop |
| 18 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 inquired | advcl |
| 19 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 22 left | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 farmer | det |
| 21 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 left | nsubj |
| 22 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 dead | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 house | det |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 left | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 received | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 received | cc |
| 27 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 conceal | parataxis |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 answer | case |
| 29 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 received | obl |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 hurry | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 hurry | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 hurry | cop |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 hurry | case |
| 34 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 36 hurry | det:predet |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 hurry | det |
| 36 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 received | advcl |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 justice | case |
| 38 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 hurry | nmod |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 done | mark |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 done | aux:pass |
| 41 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 justice | acl |
| 42 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 46 waited | mark |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 waited | nsubj |
| 44 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 waited | aux |
| 45 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 46 waited | advmod |
| 46 | waited | wait | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 41 done | advcl |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 see | mark |
| 48 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 waited | advcl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 conceal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conceal | could | the judge | a smile | the story | hardly property | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent smile=Patient at story=Location | ||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | participle | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | the wife | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | leave | past | the farmer | the house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 5 | receive | past | for answer | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | past | farmer | such hurry | for justice | tree rules | |||
| 7 | do | to-infinitive · passive | farmer not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 8 | not wait | past · perfect | farmer | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | see | to-infinitive | farmer not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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