The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 90
You were in a part of the country which you did not know, so seeing an orchard all pink and white with apple-blossoms, and a girl tossing a ball in one corner, you went up to her to ask your way.
Who acts: You, girl · What happens: be, not know, see, toss, go up, ask · To what, where: part, orchard, ball, one corner, highness, way
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 part | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 part | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 part | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 part | det |
| 5 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 country | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 country | det |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 part | nmod |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 know | obj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 know | advmod |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 part | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 know | advmod |
| 16 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 so | advcl |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 orchard | det |
| 18 | orchard | orchard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seeing | obj |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 seeing | obj |
| 20 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 all | amod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 white | cc |
| 22 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pink | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 blossoms | case |
| 24 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 blossoms | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 apple | punct |
| 26 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 white | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 went | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 went | cc |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 girl | det |
| 30 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 went | nsubj |
| 31 | tossing | toss | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 girl | acl |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 ball | det |
| 33 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 tossing | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 corner | case |
| 35 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 corner | nummod |
| 36 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 tossing | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 girl | punct |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 went | nsubj |
| 39 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 pink | conj |
| 40 | up | up | ADP | _ | 39 went | compound:prt |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 her | case |
| 42 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 went | obl |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 ask | mark |
| 44 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 went | advcl |
| 45 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 way | nmod:poss |
| 46 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 ask | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 part | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | You | a part | of the country | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | you | a part | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see | gerund | you not said here | a orchard | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | toss | gerund | a girl not said here | a ball | one corner | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ball=Theme in corner=Destination | |||
| 5 | go up | past | a girl | highness | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | a girl not said here | your way | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Recipient |
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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