The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 95
‘For some months you visited the cottage every week; but a rebellion broke out in a distant part of the kingdom, and called for your presence.
Who acts: you, rebellion · What happens: visit, break out, call · To what, where: cottage, distant part · Speech: someone speaks here
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, rebellion), 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 visited | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 months | case |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 months | det |
| 4 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 visited | obl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 visited | nsubj |
| 6 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cottage | det |
| 8 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 visited | obj |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 week | det |
| 10 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 visited | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 broke | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 broke | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 rebellion | det |
| 14 | rebellion | rebellion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 broke | nsubj |
| 15 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 visited | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 broke | compound:prt |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 part | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 part | det |
| 19 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 part | amod |
| 20 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 broke | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 kingdom | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 kingdom | det |
| 23 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 part | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 called | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 called | cc |
| 26 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 broke | conj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 presence | case |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 presence | nmod:poss |
| 29 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 called | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 visited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | past | you | the cottage | month; week | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cottage=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | break out | past | a rebellion | a distant part of the kingdom | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in part=Location | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | a rebellion not said here | for your presence | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for presence=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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