The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 83
Hastening home the sister told the others what she had witnessed, and that a lovely fat fish might be had for the catching.
Who acts: Hastening · What happens: hasten, tell, witness, have · To what, where: sister, others, girl, lovely fat fish · 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 (Hastening), 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 | Hastening | hasten | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 told | csubj |
| 2 | home | home | ADV | _ | 1 Hastening | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sister | det |
| 4 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hastening | obj |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 others | det |
| 7 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 told | obj |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 witnessed | obj |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 witnessed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 witnessed | aux |
| 11 | witnessed | witness | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 others | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 had | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 had | cc |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 had | mark |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 fish | det |
| 16 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fish | amod |
| 17 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fish | amod |
| 18 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obj |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 had | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 had | aux:pass |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 told | ccomp |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 catching | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 catching | det |
| 24 | catching | catching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | gerund | the sister | home property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sister=Patient | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Hastening | the others | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent other=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | witness | past · perfect · passive | girl | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have | might · passive | a lovely fat fish | for the catching | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: fish=Patient |
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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