The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 96
Next day there arrived one of the other young men, and in the evening, when the shoemaker had gone out and they were alone, she said to him, ‘See if the latch is on the door.’
Who acts: shoemaker, man, girl, latch · What happens: arrive, go out, be, say, see · To what, where: one, shoemaker, door · 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, man, girl, latch), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 arrived | advmod |
| 4 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 arrived | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 men | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 men | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 men | amod |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 men | amod |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gone | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gone | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 evening | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 evening | det |
| 15 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gone | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 evening | punct |
| 17 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 gone | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 shoemaker | det |
| 19 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gone | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 gone | aux |
| 21 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 arrived | conj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 gone | compound:prt |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 alone | cc |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 alone | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 alone | cop |
| 26 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 21 gone | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 said | nsubj |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arrived | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 said | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 See | punct |
| 33 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 See | punct |
| 34 | See | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 said | ccomp |
| 35 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 41 door | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 latch | det |
| 37 | latch | latch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 door | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 door | cop |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 door | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 door | det |
| 41 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 See | advcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 See | punct |
| 43 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | one of the other young men | there | day | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go out | past · perfect | the shoemaker | evening | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | man | alone property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | girl | shoemaker | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | see | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | the latch | the door | tree rules |
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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