The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 47
Thinking these thoughts she reached the bank, and began to unfold the large packet of linen that had to be washed.
Who acts: large packet · What happens: think, reach, begin, unfold, have, wash · To what, where: bank, large packet
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (large packet), 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 | Thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 thoughts | det |
| 3 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reached | nsubj |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bank | det |
| 7 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 began | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 began | cc |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reached | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 unfold | mark |
| 12 | unfold | unfold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 began | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 packet | det |
| 14 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 packet | amod |
| 15 | packet | packet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 unfold | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 linen | case |
| 17 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 packet | nmod |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 packet | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 washed | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 washed | aux:pass |
| 22 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 had | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | gerund | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | reach | past | the bank | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bank=Theme | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | unfold | to-infinitive | the large packet of linen | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent packet=Patient | |||||
| 5 | have | past | the large packet of linen | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | wash | to-infinitive · passive | the large packet of linen not said here | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V» |
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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