The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 21
As the hour struck from the great church at Plouhinec, Bernez entered the wood.
Who acts: Bernez · What happens: strike, enter · To what, where: great church, wood
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bernez), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 hour | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hour | det |
| 3 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 struck | obl |
| 4 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 church | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 church | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 church | amod |
| 8 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 struck | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 Plouhinec | case |
| 10 | Plouhinec | Plouhinec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 struck | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 entered | punct |
| 12 | Bernez | Bernez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 entered | nsubj |
| 13 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 struck | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wood | det |
| 15 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 entered | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | the great church | hour | at Plouhinec | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at plouhinec=Patient | |||
| 2 | enter | past | Bernez | the wood | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Destination |
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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