The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 64
He slung them over his shoulders and departed, pleased with his own cleverness; but when his sister awoke and sought for the pot to cook her corn for breakfast, she could find it nowhere.
Who acts: brother, sister · What happens: sling, depart, awake, seek, cook, find · To what, where: pot, shoulders, corn
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, sister), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 slung | nsubj |
| 2 | slung | sling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 slung | obj |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 shoulders | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 6 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 slung | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 departed | cc |
| 8 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 slung | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pleased | punct |
| 10 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 departed | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 cleverness | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 cleverness | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cleverness | amod |
| 14 | cleverness | cleverness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pleased | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 awoke | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 awoke | cc |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 awoke | advmod |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sister | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 awoke | nsubj |
| 20 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 slung | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sought | cc |
| 22 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 awoke | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 pot | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 pot | det |
| 25 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sought | obl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 cook | mark |
| 27 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 sought | advcl |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 corn | nmod:poss |
| 29 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 cook | obj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 breakfast | case |
| 31 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 cook | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 find | punct |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 find | nsubj |
| 34 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 find | aux |
| 35 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 awoke | conj |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 find | obj |
| 37 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 35 find | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 slung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sling | past | brother | pot | brother's shoulders | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme over shoulder=Destination | |||
| 2 | depart | past | brother not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | awake | past | brother's sister | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | seek | past | brother's sister not said here | for the pot | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for pot=Theme | ||||
| 5 | cook | to-infinitive | brother's sister not said here | sister's corn | for breakfast | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent corn=Product for breakfast=Beneficiary | |||
| 6 | find | could | sister | corn | nowhere property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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