The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 29
When on Saturdays the weather was fine and the wind favourable, they sailed to the nearest town, sold their fish, and went to church on Sunday.
Who acts: weather, wind, Matte · What happens: be, sail, sell, go · To what, where: nearest town, fish, church
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 (weather, wind, Matte), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 fine | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 Saturdays | case |
| 3 | Saturdays | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 fine | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 weather | det |
| 5 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fine | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fine | cop |
| 7 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 favourable | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wind | det |
| 10 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 favourable | nsubj |
| 11 | favourable | favourable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fine | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sailed | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sailed | nsubj |
| 14 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fine | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 town | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 town | det |
| 17 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 town | amod |
| 18 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sailed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sold | punct |
| 20 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sailed | conj |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 fish | nmod:poss |
| 22 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sold | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 went | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 went | cc |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sailed | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 church | case |
| 27 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 went | obl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 Sunday | case |
| 29 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 went | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the weather | saturday | fine property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | the wind | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | sail | past | Matte | the nearest town | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to town=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | sell | past | Matte not said here | Matte's fish | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go | past | Matte not said here | church | sunday | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location |
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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