The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 63
Now the brother was filled with envy at the words of the man, and he set out at once, and before dawn he had reached the hut, and saw the pot and the mortar were standing outside.
Who acts: brother, pot · What happens: fill, set out, reach, see, stand, word · To what, where: brother, hut, man · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (brother, pot), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 filled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brother | det |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filled | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 filled | aux:pass |
| 5 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 envy | case |
| 7 | envy | envy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filled | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 words | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 words | det |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 envy | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 man | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 words | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 set | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 set | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 set | nsubj |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 filled | parataxis |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 set | compound:prt |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 once | case |
| 20 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 17 set | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 reached | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 reached | cc |
| 23 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 dawn | case |
| 24 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 reached | obl |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 reached | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 reached | aux |
| 27 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 set | parataxis |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 hut | det |
| 29 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 reached | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 saw | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 saw | cc |
| 32 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 set | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 pot | det |
| 34 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 standing | nsubj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 mortar | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 mortar | det |
| 37 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 pot | conj |
| 38 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 standing | aux |
| 39 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 saw | ccomp |
| 40 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 39 standing | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · passive | the brother | now | with envy at the words of the man | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with envy=Instrument | |||
| 2 | set out | past | brother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | reach | past · perfect | brother | the hut | dawn | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hut=Theme | |||
| 4 | see | past | brother not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | stand | past · progressive | the pot and the mortar | outside property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | word | the man | nom word «communication transitive»: of=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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