The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 116
Now it was just dinner time, so they all had a dinner of raspberries and cream.
Who acts: home, flowers · What happens: be, have · To what, where: dinner time, dinner
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (home, flowers), 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 | 6 time | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 time | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 time | cop |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 time | advmod |
| 5 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 time | compound |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 had | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 they | det |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 time | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 dinner | det |
| 13 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 raspberries | case |
| 15 | raspberries | raspberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dinner | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cream | cc |
| 17 | cream | cream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 raspberries | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | home | dinner time | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | past | flowers = flower | a dinner of raspberries and cream | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient |
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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