The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 82
So before sunrise he got up and set out for his sister’s house, and found her cleaning some corn.
Who acts: husband, sister · What happens: get up, set out, find, clean · To what, where: sister, 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 (husband, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 got | advmod |
| 2 | before | before | ADP | _ | 3 sunrise | case |
| 3 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 got | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 set | cc |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 got | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 set | compound:prt |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sister | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 house | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 sister | case |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 found | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 found | cc |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 found | obj |
| 19 | cleaning | clean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 found | xcomp |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 corn | det |
| 21 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cleaning | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | husband | sunrise | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | set out | infinitive | husband not said here | for husband's sister's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | husband not said here | sister | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | clean | gerund | sister not said here | some corn | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent corn=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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