The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 44
Then the sun will shine again, but every leaf of the tree will by lying on the ground.
Who acts: sun, leaf · What happens: shine, lie · To what, where: ground
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, leaf), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 shine | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shine | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 shine | aux |
| 5 | shine | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 shine | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lying | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 lying | cc |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 leaf | det |
| 10 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lying | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leaf | nmod |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 lying | aux |
| 15 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 16 lying | mark |
| 16 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 shine | advcl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 ground | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ground | det |
| 19 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lying | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | future | the sun | then; again | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lie | future | every leaf of the tree | the ground | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location |
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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