The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 5
Meantime he must be ready in case a chance should come, and he made his preparations at night, when everyone was asleep.
Who acts: Meantime, chance, colt, everyone · What happens: be, come, make, prepare · To what, where: preparations
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Meantime, chance, colt, everyone), 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 | Meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ready | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ready | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 ready | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ready | cop |
| 5 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 11 come | mark |
| 7 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 in | fixed |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 chance | det |
| 9 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ready | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 made | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 made | nsubj |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ready | parataxis |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 preparations | nmod:poss |
| 17 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 made | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 night | case |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 asleep | punct |
| 21 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 24 asleep | mark |
| 22 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 24 asleep | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 asleep | cop |
| 24 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 made | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | Meantime | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | should | a chance | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | past | colt | colt's preparations | night | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent preparation=Product | |||
| 4 | is | past | everyone | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | prepare | colt | nom preparation «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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