The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 98
They even managed to carry small fruit tied up in their tails for the baby’s mother, who felt at last that she was safe and at peace.
Who acts: father, mother · What happens: manage, carry, tie up, feel, be · To what, where: small fruit, tails, last
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, mother), 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 | 3 managed | nsubj |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 3 managed | advmod |
| 3 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 carry | mark |
| 5 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 managed | xcomp |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fruit | amod |
| 7 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carry | obj |
| 8 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 fruit | acl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 tied | compound:prt |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 tails | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 tails | nmod:poss |
| 12 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 carry | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 mother | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 baby | det |
| 15 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 baby | case |
| 17 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carry | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 felt | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 felt | nsubj |
| 20 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 mother | acl:relcl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 last | case |
| 22 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 felt | obl |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 safe | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 safe | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 safe | cop |
| 26 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 felt | advcl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 peace | cc |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 peace | case |
| 29 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 safe | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 managed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manage | past | father | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | carry | to-infinitive | father not said here | small fruit | father's tails | for the baby's mother | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fruit=Value in tail=Location | ||
| 3 | tie up | participle | small fruit not said here | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | feel | past | the baby's mother | last | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at last=Location | ||||
| 5 | is | past | mother | safe property | tree rules |
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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