The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 39
The stones had finished drinking, and were hastening back to their places.
What happens: finish, hasten · To what, where: stones
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stones | det |
| 2 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | drinking | drinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finished | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hastening | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hastening | cc |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hastening | aux |
| 9 | hastening | hasten | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 finished | advcl |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 hastening | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 places | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 places | nmod:poss |
| 13 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 back | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect · passive | the stones | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hasten | past · progressive | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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