The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 50
Together they took counsel what they should do, and in the end they decided that they also would put her out of the town.
Who acts: people · What happens: take, do, decide, put · To what, where: counsel, end, queen, town
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | Together | together | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 do | obj |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 do | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 counsel | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 decided | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 decided | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 end | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 end | det |
| 13 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 decided | obl |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 decided | nsubj |
| 15 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 put | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 put | nsubj |
| 18 | also | also | ADV | _ | 20 put | advmod |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 put | aux |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 decided | advcl |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 put | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 town | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 town | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 town | det |
| 25 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | people | counsel | together property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | should | people | counsel | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | decide | past | people | in the end | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | put | would | people | queen | the town | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme out town=Destination |
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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