The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 87
Now this was Saturday, and on Saturday evenings Matte never set the herring-net, for he did not fish on Sunday.
Who acts: this, Saturday, delightful · What happens: be, not set, not fish · To what, where: Saturday, herring net
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 (this, Saturday, delightful), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 Saturday | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Saturday | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Saturday | cop |
| 4 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 set | cc |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 evenings | case |
| 8 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 evenings | compound |
| 9 | evenings | evening | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 set | obl |
| 10 | Matte | Matte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 evenings | appos |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 set | advmod |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Saturday | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 net | det |
| 14 | herring | herring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 net | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 herring | punct |
| 16 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 set | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fish | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 fish | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fish | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 fish | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 fish | advmod |
| 22 | fish | fish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 set | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 Sunday | case |
| 24 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 fish | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Saturday | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this | Saturday | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not set | past | Saturday not said here | the herring net | evening | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient net=Result | |||
| 3 | not fish | past · do-support | delightful | sunday | vn hunt-35.1 «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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