The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 111
Just as she had finished there arrived the little dwarf from the Deer’s Leap in a car drawn by six cockchafers, which once had been the six stone eggs.
Who acts: many, six cockchafers, Deer · What happens: finish, arrive, draw, be, leap · To what, where: little dwarf, Leap, car, six stone eggs
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many, six cockchafers, Deer), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 7 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 finished | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 finished | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 finished | aux |
| 5 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 arrived | advcl |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 finished | advmod |
| 7 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dwarf | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dwarf | amod |
| 10 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arrived | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 Leap | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Deer | det |
| 13 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Leap | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Deer | case |
| 15 | Leap | leap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arrived | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 car | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 car | det |
| 18 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arrived | obl |
| 19 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 car | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 cockchafers | case |
| 21 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 cockchafers | nummod |
| 22 | cockchafers | cockchafer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 drawn | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 eggs | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 eggs | nsubj |
| 25 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 31 eggs | advmod |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 eggs | aux |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 eggs | cop |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 eggs | det |
| 29 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 eggs | nummod |
| 30 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 eggs | compound |
| 31 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 cockchafers | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | many | there | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | the little dwarf | the Deer's Leap | in a car | tree rules | |||
| 3 | draw | participle | a car not said here | by six cockchafers and the six stone eggs | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | past · perfect | six cockchafers and the six stone eggs | the six stone eggs | once property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | leap | the Deer | nom leap «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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