The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 79
‘When they are grown up they will marry,’ said the mothers; but just as every one was beginning to think of wedding bells, the two mothers died, and the cousins, who had no money, went as servants in the same house.
Who acts: kinds, one, two mothers, cousins · What happens: grow up, marry, say, begin, think, die · To what, where: kinds, mothers, wedding bells, money, same house · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (kinds, one, two mothers, cousins), 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 | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 grown | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 grown | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 grown | aux:pass |
| 5 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 grown | compound:prt |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 marry | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 marry | aux |
| 9 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 grown | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 grown | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mothers | det |
| 14 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 beginning | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 beginning | cc |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 beginning | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 beginning | mark |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 one | det |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 beginning | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 beginning | aux |
| 22 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 think | mark |
| 24 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 beginning | xcomp |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 bells | case |
| 26 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bells | compound |
| 27 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 think | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 died | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 mothers | det |
| 30 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 mothers | nummod |
| 31 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 died | nsubj |
| 32 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 bells | acl:relcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 had | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 had | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 cousins | det |
| 36 | cousins | cousin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 had | nsubj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 had | punct |
| 38 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 had | nsubj |
| 39 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 40 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 41 money | det |
| 41 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 had | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 went | punct |
| 43 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 had | conj |
| 44 | as | as | ADP | _ | 45 servants | case |
| 45 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 went | obl |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 house | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 house | det |
| 48 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 house | amod |
| 49 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 went | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | present · passive | kinds = kind | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | marry | future | kinds = kind | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the mothers | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | begin | past · progressive | every one | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | every one not said here | of wedding bells | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | die | past | the two mothers | wedding bells not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | have | past | the cousins | no money | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | ||||
| 8 | go | past | the cousins not said here | the same house | as servants | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in house=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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