The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 27
This annoyed Maie, but nevertheless she rowed out to sea on Sunday night and sang as before:
Who acts: Maie · What happens: row out, sing · To what, where: annoyed Maie, sea
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 (Maie), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Maie | nsubj |
| 2 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Maie | amod |
| 3 | Maie | Maie | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rowed | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 rowed | cc |
| 6 | nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 8 rowed | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 rowed | nsubj |
| 8 | rowed | row | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Maie | acl:relcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 rowed | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rowed | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 night | case |
| 13 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 night | compound |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rowed | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sang | cc |
| 16 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rowed | conj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 before | case |
| 18 | before | before | ADV | _ | 16 sang | obl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 Maie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | row out | past | Maie | annoyed Maie not said here | sea | night | nevertheless property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent maie=Theme to sea=Trajectory | |
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | Maie not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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