The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 27
But she was too busy to pay heed to this, for the sun was getting high over the hills.
Who acts: magpie, sun · What happens: be, pay, get · To what, where: heed, hills
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magpie, sun), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 busy | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 busy | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 busy | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 busy | advmod |
| 5 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 pay | mark |
| 7 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 busy | xcomp |
| 8 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pay | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 this | case |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 pay | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 getting | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 getting | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sun | det |
| 14 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 getting | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 getting | aux |
| 16 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 pay | advcl |
| 17 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 getting | advmod |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 hills | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hills | det |
| 20 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 getting | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | magpie | busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pay | to-infinitive | magpie not said here | heed | to this | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset | |||
| 3 | get | past · progressive | the sun | the hills | high property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over hill=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/29/27/