The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 130
As there was nothing to be done, they went in.
Who acts: nothing, things · What happens: be, do, go in
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, things), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 was | mark |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | advcl |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 was | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 done | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 done | aux:pass |
| 7 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 nothing | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive · passive | nothing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | go in | past | things = thing | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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