The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 35
In a few minutes the whole procession came up, and she stepped forward and begged them to come in and rest.
Who acts: whole procession, procession · What happens: come up, step forward, beg, come in, rest · To what, where: food
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole procession, procession), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 minutes | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 minutes | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 minutes | amod |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 came | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 procession | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 procession | amod |
| 7 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stepped | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stepped | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stepped | nsubj |
| 13 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | parataxis |
| 14 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 13 stepped | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 begged | cc |
| 16 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 stepped | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 begged | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 come | mark |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 begged | xcomp |
| 20 | in | in | ADV | _ | 19 come | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 rest | cc |
| 22 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 come | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | the whole procession | minute | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | step forward | past | procession | forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | past | procession not said here | food | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | come in not said to happen | to-infinitive | procession not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | rest | infinitive | procession not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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