The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 82
Then they took counsel together, and watched her to see what she did, and one of them followed her to the fountain where Djulung lived, and saw her give him all the rice she had saved from her breakfast.
Who acts: sisters, girl, one, Djulung · What happens: take, watch, see, do, follow, live · To what, where: counsel, girl, fountain, rice, Djulung, breakfast · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sisters, girl, one, Djulung), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 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 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 watched | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 watched | cc |
| 8 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 watched | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 watched | xcomp |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 did | obj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 did | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 followed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 followed | cc |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 followed | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 one | nmod |
| 20 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 followed | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 fountain | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fountain | det |
| 24 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 followed | obl |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 lived | advmod |
| 26 | Djulung | Djulung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 lived | nsubj |
| 27 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 fountain | acl:relcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 saw | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 saw | cc |
| 30 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 give | nsubj |
| 32 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 saw | ccomp |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 give | iobj |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 rice | det:predet |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 rice | det |
| 36 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 give | obj |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 saved | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 saved | aux |
| 39 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 rice | acl:relcl |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 42 breakfast | case |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 breakfast | nmod:poss |
| 42 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 saved | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | sisters = sister | counsel | then | together property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | ||
| 2 | watch | past | sisters = sister not said here | girl | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | girl not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | do | past | girl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | follow | past | one of sisters | girl | the fountain | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme to fountain=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | live | past | Djulung | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | see | past | sisters = sister not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | give | infinitive | girl | all rice | Djulung | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient rice=Theme | |||
| 9 | save | past · perfect | girl | all rice not said here | girl's breakfast | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent rice=Theme from breakfast=Source |
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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