The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 51
Then he forgot how his mother had told him the tale, and was obliged to begin all over again, so the story lasted a long while, and by the time it was ended the children were ready to be rolled up in what ever coverings could be found, and go to sleep.
Who acts: Kenneth, story, time, children · What happens: forget, tell, oblige, begin, last, end · To what, where: mother, tale, story, coverings, sleep · 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 (Kenneth, story, time, children), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 forgot | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 forgot | nsubj |
| 3 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 told | advmod |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 told | aux |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 forgot | parataxis |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 told | iobj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tale | det |
| 11 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 obliged | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 obliged | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 obliged | aux:pass |
| 15 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 forgot | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 begin | mark |
| 17 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 obliged | xcomp |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 again | advmod |
| 19 | over | over | ADV | _ | 20 again | advmod |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 begin | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lasted | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 lasted | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 story | det |
| 24 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lasted | nsubj |
| 25 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 forgot | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 while | det |
| 27 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 while | amod |
| 28 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lasted | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 ready | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 ready | cc |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 time | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 time | det |
| 33 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 ready | obl |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 ended | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 ended | aux:pass |
| 36 | ended | end | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 time | acl:relcl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 children | det |
| 38 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 ready | nsubj |
| 39 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 ready | cop |
| 40 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 forgot | parataxis |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 rolled | mark |
| 42 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 rolled | aux:pass |
| 43 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 ready | xcomp |
| 44 | up | up | ADP | _ | 43 rolled | compound:prt |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 what | case |
| 46 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 rolled | obl |
| 47 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 48 coverings | advmod |
| 48 | coverings | covering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 found | nsubj:pass |
| 49 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 found | aux |
| 50 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 51 found | aux:pass |
| 51 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 what | acl:relcl |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 go | punct |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 go | cc |
| 54 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 forgot | parataxis |
| 55 | to | to | ADP | _ | 56 sleep | case |
| 56 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 go | obl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 forgot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past | Kenneth | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | Kenneth's mother | the tale | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | oblige | past · passive | Kenneth not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result | |||||
| 4 | begin | to-infinitive | Kenneth not said here | again | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | last | past | the story | while | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | end | past · passive | the time not said here | story | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | is | past | the children | time | ready property | tree rules | |||
| 8 | roll up | to-infinitive · passive | the children not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: in what=Trajectory | |||||
| 9 | find | could · passive | coverings | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 10 | go | infinitive | sleep | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location |
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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