The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 49
‘Not yet,’ replied the apple in the kitchen, but when in a few minutes, he put the question for the fourth time and received an answer from the apple outside the house door, he guessed what had happened, and ran to the room to look for himself.
Who acts: husband · What happens: reply, put, receive, guess, happen, run · To what, where: apple, kitchen, question, answer · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (husband), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 yet | advmod |
| 3 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 6 replied | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 yet | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 apple | det |
| 8 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 kitchen | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 kitchen | det |
| 11 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 apple | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 put | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 put | cc |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 put | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 minutes | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 minutes | det |
| 17 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 minutes | amod |
| 18 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 put | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 minutes | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 put | nsubj |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 replied | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 question | det |
| 23 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 time | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 time | det |
| 26 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 27 time | amod |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 received | cc |
| 29 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 put | conj |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 answer | det |
| 31 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 received | obj |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 apple | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 apple | det |
| 34 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 received | obl |
| 35 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 38 door | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 door | det |
| 37 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 door | compound |
| 38 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 apple | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 guessed | punct |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 guessed | nsubj |
| 41 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 replied | conj |
| 42 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 44 happened | nsubj |
| 43 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 happened | aux |
| 44 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 41 guessed | ccomp |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 ran | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 ran | cc |
| 47 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 replied | conj |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 50 room | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 room | det |
| 50 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 ran | obl |
| 51 | to | to | PART | _ | 52 look | mark |
| 52 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 ran | advcl |
| 53 | for | for | ADP | _ | 54 himself | case |
| 54 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 52 look | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the apple | the kitchen | yet | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent apple=Topic | |||
| 2 | put | past | husband | the question | minute; time | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Goal | |||
| 3 | receive | past | husband not said here | a answer | the apple outside the house door | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent answer=Theme from apple=Source | |||
| 4 | guess | past | husband | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | happen | past · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | run | past | to the room result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to room=Result | |||||
| 7 | look | to-infinitive | for husband | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for himself=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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