The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 94
By and bye they arrived at the house in a tree where the snake lived, when he was not travelling with his father and mother.
Who acts: others, snake, tree · What happens: arrive, live, not travel · To what, where: house
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 (others, snake, tree), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 bye | case |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 bye | cc |
| 3 | bye | bye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrived | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 arrived | nsubj |
| 5 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrived | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrived | obl |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 lived | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 snake | det |
| 14 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lived | nsubj |
| 15 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 tree | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 travelling | punct |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 travelling | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 travelling | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 travelling | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 travelling | advmod |
| 21 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 arrived | advcl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 father | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 father | nmod:poss |
| 24 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 travelling | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 mother | cc |
| 26 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 father | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | others = other | the house | by bye; in a tree | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | past | the snake | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not travel | past · progressive | tree | with tree's father and mother | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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