The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 97
They made their guest lie down on a hammock woven of the strong creepers which hung from bough to bough, till she was quite rested after her wanderings, while they watched the baby and gave him milk to drink from the cocoa-nuts which they persuaded their friends the monkeys to crack for them.
Who acts: father, guest, strong creepers, cocoa nuts · What happens: make, lie down, hang, rest, watch, give · To what, where: hammock woven, bough, guest, baby, milk, cocoa nuts
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 (father, guest, strong creepers, cocoa nuts), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 guest | nmod:poss |
| 4 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lie | nsubj |
| 5 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | ccomp |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 lie | advmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 woven | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 woven | det |
| 9 | hammock | hammock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 woven | compound |
| 10 | woven | woven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lie | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 creepers | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 creepers | det |
| 13 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 creepers | amod |
| 14 | creepers | creeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 woven | nmod |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 hung | nsubj |
| 16 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 creepers | acl:relcl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 bough | case |
| 18 | bough | bough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hung | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 bough | case |
| 20 | bough | bough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hung | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 rested | punct |
| 22 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 26 rested | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 rested | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 rested | aux:pass |
| 25 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 26 rested | advmod |
| 26 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 hung | conj |
| 27 | after | after | ADP | _ | 29 wanderings | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 wanderings | nmod:poss |
| 29 | wanderings | wandering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 rested | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 watched | punct |
| 31 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 33 watched | mark |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 watched | nsubj |
| 33 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | parataxis |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 baby | det |
| 35 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 watched | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 gave | cc |
| 37 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 watched | conj |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 gave | iobj |
| 39 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 gave | obj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 drink | mark |
| 41 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 gave | advcl |
| 42 | from | from | ADP | _ | 46 nuts | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 nuts | det |
| 44 | cocoa | cocoa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 nuts | compound |
| 45 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 cocoa | punct |
| 46 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 drink | obl |
| 47 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 49 persuaded | nsubj |
| 48 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 persuaded | nsubj |
| 49 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 nuts | acl:relcl |
| 50 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 friends | nmod:poss |
| 51 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 persuaded | obj |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 monkeys | det |
| 53 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 friends | conj |
| 54 | to | to | PART | _ | 55 crack | mark |
| 55 | crack | crack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 49 persuaded | advcl |
| 56 | for | for | ADP | _ | 57 them | case |
| 57 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 crack | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | father | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lie down | present | father's guest | a hammock woven of the strong creepers | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on woven=Location | |||
| 3 | hang | past | the strong creepers | bough | to bough | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | rest | past · passive | guest | after guest's wanderings | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | watch | past | father | the baby | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme | ||||
| 6 | give | past | father not said here | milk | baby | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient milk=Theme | |||
| 7 | drink | to-infinitive | father not said here | the cocoa nuts | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from nut=Source | ||||
| 8 | persuade | past | the cocoa nuts | father's friends and the monkeys | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient | ||||
| 9 | crack | to-infinitive | the cocoa nuts not said here | for father | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 10 | wander | guest | nom wandering «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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