The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 135
Lisa ate, Aina ate, and in a little while their baskets were full.
Who acts: Lisa, Aina, baskets · What happens: eat, be · To what, where: little
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 (Lisa, Aina, baskets), 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 | Lisa | Lisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ate | nsubj |
| 2 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ate | punct |
| 4 | Aina | Aina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ate | nsubj |
| 5 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ate | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 full | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 full | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 little | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 little | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 full | obl |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 full | mark |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 baskets | nmod:poss |
| 13 | baskets | basket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 full | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 full | cop |
| 15 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ate | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | Lisa | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | eat | past | Aina | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | berries's baskets | a little | full property | tree rules |
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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