The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 91
So the shoemaker hurried to the youth who had first spoken, and he came back, and after giving the shoemaker a hundred pounds for his news, he sought the girl, who was waiting for him.
Who acts: shoemaker, girl · What happens: hurry, speak, come back, give, seek, wait · To what, where: youth, shoemaker, girl · 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 (shoemaker, girl), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 hurried | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shoemaker | det |
| 3 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hurried | nsubj |
| 4 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 youth | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 youth | det |
| 7 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hurried | obl |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 spoken | aux |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 spoken | advmod |
| 11 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 youth | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 came | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurried | conj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 came | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sought | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 sought | cc |
| 19 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 20 giving | mark |
| 20 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 sought | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 shoemaker | det |
| 22 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 giving | obj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 hundred | det |
| 24 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 pounds | nummod |
| 25 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 giving | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 news | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 news | nmod:poss |
| 28 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 giving | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 giving | punct |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 sought | nsubj |
| 31 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurried | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 girl | det |
| 33 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sought | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 waiting | punct |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 waiting | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 waiting | aux |
| 37 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 girl | acl |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 waiting | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry | past | the shoemaker | the youth | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to youth=Destination | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past · perfect · passive | the youth | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come back | past | shoemaker | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | give | gerund | shoemaker not said here | the shoemaker | for shoemaker's news | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent shoemaker=Recipient pound=Theme for news=Asset | |||
| 5 | seek | past | shoemaker | the girl | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme | ||||
| 6 | wait | past · progressive | the girl | for shoemaker | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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