The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 92
They never guessed that when she went into the forest to gather her sticks, she never failed to pay a visit to the tree, which grew taller and more wonderful day by day.
Who acts: sisters, body, tree · What happens: not guess, go, gather, not fail, pay, grow · To what, where: forest, sticks, visit · 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, body, tree), 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 guessed | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 guessed | advmod |
| 3 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 went | mark |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 went | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 guessed | ccomp |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 forest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 forest | det |
| 10 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 gather | mark |
| 12 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 went | advcl |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sticks | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gather | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 failed | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 failed | nsubj |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 failed | advmod |
| 18 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 guessed | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 pay | mark |
| 20 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 failed | xcomp |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 visit | det |
| 22 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pay | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 tree | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 tree | det |
| 25 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pay | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 grew | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 grew | nsubj |
| 28 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 tree | conj |
| 29 | taller | tall | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 33 day | amod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 wonderful | cc |
| 31 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 32 wonderful | advmod |
| 32 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 taller | conj |
| 33 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 grew | obl:unmarked |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 day | case |
| 35 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 grew | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 guessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not guess | past | sisters = sister | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go | past | body | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | gather | to-infinitive | body not said here | body's sticks | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not fail | past | body | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | pay | to-infinitive | body not said here | a visit | to the tree | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset | |||
| 6 | grow | past | the tree | day | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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