The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 29
After that was finished, she begged Houarn to accompany her to a fish-pond at the bottom of the garden.
Who acts: Groac’h · What happens: finish, beg, accompany · To what, where: that, Houarn, Groac’h, bottom
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 (Groac’h), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 finished | mark |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux:pass |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 begged | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 finished | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 begged | nsubj |
| 7 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Houarn | Houarn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 begged | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 accompany | mark |
| 10 | accompany | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 begged | xcomp |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 accompany | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 pond | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 pond | det |
| 14 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pond | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 fish | punct |
| 16 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 accompany | obl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 bottom | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bottom | det |
| 19 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 accompany | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 garden | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 garden | det |
| 22 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bottom | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · passive | that | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | Groac’h = groac'h | Houarn | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent houarn=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | accompany not said to happen | to-infinitive | Groac’h = groac'h not said here | Groac’h = groac'h | the bottom of the garden | to a fish pond | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to pond=Destination |
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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