The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 97
The young man hastened to do her bidding, but as soon as he touched the latch, his fingers stuck to it, and there he had to stay for many hours, till the shoemaker came back, and the girl let him go.
Who acts: shoemaker, young man, girl · What happens: hasten, do, touch, stick, have, stay · To what, where: young man, bidding, latch, shoemaker
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, young man, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stuck | nsubj |
| 4 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 man | acl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hastened | xcomp |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bidding | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stuck | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 stuck | cc |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 soon | advmod |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 stuck | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 touched | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 touched | nsubj |
| 15 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 soon | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 latch | det |
| 17 | latch | latch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 touched | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stuck | punct |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 20 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 stuck | nsubj |
| 21 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 stuck | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 had | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 had | cc |
| 26 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 28 had | expl |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 had | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 stuck | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 stay | mark |
| 30 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 had | xcomp |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 hours | case |
| 32 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 hours | amod |
| 33 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 stay | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 came | punct |
| 35 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 38 came | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 shoemaker | det |
| 37 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 came | nsubj |
| 38 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 had | parataxis |
| 39 | back | back | ADV | _ | 38 came | advmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 let | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 let | cc |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 girl | det |
| 43 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 let | nsubj |
| 44 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 38 came | conj |
| 45 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 let | obj |
| 46 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 let | xcomp |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 stuck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | participle | the young man not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | girl's bidding | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | touch | past | shoemaker | the latch | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme latch=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | stick | past | the young man | latch | soon property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Patient | |||
| 5 | have | past | shoemaker | there | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | stay | to-infinitive | shoemaker not said here | hour | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | come back | past | the shoemaker | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | let | infinitive | the girl | shoemaker | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | go | infinitive | shoemaker not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 10 | bid | girl | nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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