The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 39
Sure enough, there was the little box with the precious ointment.
Who acts: little box · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little box), 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 | Sure | sure | ADV | _ | 5 was | advmod |
| 2 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 1 Sure | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sure | punct |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 box | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 box | amod |
| 8 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 ointment | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ointment | det |
| 11 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ointment | amod |
| 12 | ointment | ointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 box | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the little box with the precious ointment | there | sure property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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