The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 51
It was all ready for him to dwell in, but instead of being in the midst of the forest, he did wish he had left the bundle unloosed till he had reached the green valley close to his father’s palace.
Who acts: It, son · What happens: be, dwell, do, leave, unloose, reach · To what, where: wish, bundle, green valley
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, son), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ready | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | cop |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 ready | advmod |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 dwell | mark |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dwell | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 dwell | mark |
| 8 | dwell | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ready | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADV | _ | 8 dwell | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 midst | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 midst | cc |
| 12 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 17 midst | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 instead | fixed |
| 14 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 midst | cop |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 midst | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 midst | det |
| 17 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ready | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 forest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 forest | det |
| 20 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 midst | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 did | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 did | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | parataxis |
| 24 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 did | obj |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 left | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 left | aux |
| 27 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 wish | acl:relcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bundle | det |
| 29 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 left | obj |
| 30 | unloosed | unloose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 bundle | acl |
| 31 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 34 reached | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 reached | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 reached | aux |
| 34 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 unloosed | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 valley | det |
| 36 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 valley | amod |
| 37 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 reached | obj |
| 38 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 valley | amod |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 palace | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 father | nmod:poss |
| 41 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 palace | nmod:poss |
| 42 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 41 father | case |
| 43 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 close | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | It | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dwell | to-infinitive | son | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | gerund | instead the midst; of the forest | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do | past | son | wish | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | leave | past · perfect | son | the bundle | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme | ||||
| 6 | unloose | participle | the bundle not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | reach | past · perfect | son | the green valley | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent valley=Theme |
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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