The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 57
And the girl was glad, and that night she was able to have supper herself, and next day another woman borrowed her pot, and then another and another, for never were known so many accidents as befell the village pots at that time.
Who acts: girl, night, woman · What happens: be, have, borrow, not know, befall · To what, where: supper, pot, many accidents, village pots
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 (girl, night, woman), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 glad | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 glad | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 glad | cop |
| 5 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 able | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 able | cc |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 night | det |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 able | nsubj |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 able | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 able | cop |
| 12 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 glad | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 have | mark |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 able | xcomp |
| 15 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 have | obj |
| 16 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 have | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 borrowed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 borrowed | cc |
| 19 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 day | amod |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 borrowed | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 woman | det |
| 22 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 borrowed | nsubj |
| 23 | borrowed | borrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 glad | conj |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 pot | nmod:poss |
| 25 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 borrowed | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 another | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 another | cc |
| 28 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 another | advmod |
| 29 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 borrowed | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 another | cc |
| 31 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 another | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 known | punct |
| 33 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 36 known | mark |
| 34 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 36 known | advmod |
| 35 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 known | aux:pass |
| 36 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 borrowed | parataxis |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 many | advmod |
| 38 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 accidents | amod |
| 39 | accidents | accident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 known | obj |
| 40 | as | as | ADV | _ | 41 befell | advmod |
| 41 | befell | befall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 known | advcl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 pots | det |
| 43 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 pots | compound |
| 44 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 befell | obj |
| 45 | at | at | ADP | _ | 47 time | case |
| 46 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 47 time | det |
| 47 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 befell | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the girl | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | that night | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | that night not said here | supper | Girl obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient | |||
| 4 | borrow | past | another woman | Girl's pot | day | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme | |||
| 5 | not know | past · passive | many accidents | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: accident=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | befall | past | the village pots | time | 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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