The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 49
One day as Matte and his wife were cleaning herring on the shore they heard Prince barking, and soon there appeared a gaily painted boat with three young men in it, steering towards the rock.
Who acts: One day, Matte, Prince · What happens: clean, hear, bark, appear, paint, steer · To what, where: herring, shore, gaily painted boat, rock
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 (One day, Matte, Prince), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cleaning | nsubj |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 Matte | case |
| 4 | Matte | Matte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 day | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wife | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Matte | conj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cleaning | aux |
| 9 | cleaning | clean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | herring | herring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cleaning | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 shore | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 shore | det |
| 13 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cleaning | obl |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 heard | nsubj |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 shore | acl:relcl |
| 16 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 barking | nsubj |
| 17 | barking | bark | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 heard | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 appeared | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 appeared | cc |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 there | advmod |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 appeared | advmod |
| 22 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cleaning | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 boat | det |
| 24 | gaily | gaily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 boat | amod |
| 25 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 boat | amod |
| 26 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 appeared | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 men | case |
| 28 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 men | nummod |
| 29 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 men | amod |
| 30 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 boat | nmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 men | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 steering | punct |
| 34 | steering | steer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 appeared | advcl |
| 35 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 37 rock | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 rock | det |
| 37 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 steering | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cleaning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clean | past · progressive | One day as Matte and husband's wife | herring | the shore | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent herring=Patient | |||
| 2 | hear | past | Matte | the shore not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bark | gerund | Prince | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | appear | past | One day as Matte and husband's wife not said here | a gaily painted boat | there | with three young men in boat | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boat=Theme | ||
| 5 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | steer | gerund | One day as Matte and husband's wife not said here | the rock | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent towards rock=Destination |
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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