The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 84
Whenever they met they repeated their grievances, and at length Houarn’s patience was exhausted, and one morning he came to Bellah and told her that he was going away to seek his fortune.
Who acts: cousins, Houarn · What happens: meet, repeat, exhaust, come, tell, go away · To what, where: grievances, patience, length, Bellah, fortune · 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 (cousins, Houarn), 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 | Whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 3 met | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 met | nsubj |
| 3 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 repeated | advcl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 repeated | nsubj |
| 5 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 grievances | nmod:poss |
| 7 | grievances | grievance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 repeated | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 exhausted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 exhausted | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 length | case |
| 11 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 exhausted | obl |
| 12 | Houarn | Houarn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 patience | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Houarn | case |
| 14 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 exhausted | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 exhausted | aux:pass |
| 16 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 repeated | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 came | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 came | cc |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 morning | nummod |
| 20 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 came | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 repeated | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Bellah | case |
| 24 | Bellah | Bellah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 came | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 told | cc |
| 26 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 came | conj |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 told | iobj |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 going | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 going | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 going | aux |
| 31 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 told | ccomp |
| 32 | away | away | ADV | _ | 31 going | advmod |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 seek | mark |
| 34 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 going | xcomp |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 36 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 seek | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | cousins = cousin | whenever property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | repeat | past | cousins = cousin | cousins's grievances | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grievance=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | exhaust | past · passive | Houarn's patience | length | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | come | past | Houarn | Bellah | morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bellah=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | Houarn not said here | Bellah | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | go away | past · progressive | Houarn | away property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | seek | to-infinitive | Houarn not said here | Houarn's fortune | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=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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