The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 50
They were students, on a boating excursion, and wanted to get something to eat.
Who acts: Matte, students · What happens: be, want, get, eat · To what, where: students, something
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 (Matte, students), 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 students | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 students | cop |
| 3 | students | student | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 excursion | punct |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 excursion | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 excursion | det |
| 7 | boating | boating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 excursion | compound |
| 8 | excursion | excursion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 students | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wanted | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wanted | cc |
| 11 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 students | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 get | mark |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wanted | xcomp |
| 14 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 get | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 eat | mark |
| 16 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 something | acl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 students | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Matte | students and a boating excursion | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want | past | students and a boating excursion not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | students and a boating excursion not said here | something | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | students and a boating excursion not said here | something not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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