The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 37
Everyone had been looking for them, and the big sister had not been able to sleep, for she thought the wolves had eaten them up.
Who acts: Everyone, big sister, two · What happens: look, not be, sleep, think, eat up · To what, where: wolves · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everyone, big sister, two), 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 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 looking | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looking | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 looking | aux |
| 4 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looking | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 able | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 able | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sister | det |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sister | amod |
| 11 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 able | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 able | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 able | advmod |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 able | cop |
| 15 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 looking | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 sleep | mark |
| 17 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 able | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 thought | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 thought | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 thought | nsubj |
| 21 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looking | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wolves | det |
| 23 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 eaten | aux |
| 25 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 thought | ccomp |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 eaten | obj |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 eaten | compound:prt |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · perfect · progressive | Everyone | for girls = girl | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is | past · perfect | the big sister | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sleep | to-infinitive | the big sister not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | two | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | eat up | past · perfect · passive | the wolves | 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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