The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 103
Manawyddan was placing the cross-beam on the two forked sticks, where the mouse was to hang, when a priest rode past.
Who acts: Manawyddan, two, mouse, priest · What happens: place, fork, be, ride · To what, where: cross-beam, sticks
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Manawyddan, two, mouse, priest), 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 | Manawyddan | Manawyddan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 placing | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 placing | aux |
| 3 | placing | place | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cross-beam | det |
| 5 | cross-beam | cross-beam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 placing | obj |
| 6 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 9 forked | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 two | det |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 forked | nsubj |
| 9 | forked | fork | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 placing | advcl |
| 10 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 forked | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hang | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 hang | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mouse | det |
| 14 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hang | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 hang | cop |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 hang | mark |
| 17 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sticks | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rode | punct |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 rode | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 priest | det |
| 21 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rode | nsubj |
| 22 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 hang | conj |
| 23 | past | past | ADV | _ | 22 rode | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 placing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · progressive | Manawyddan | the cross-beam | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent cross-beam=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fork | past | the two | sticks | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the mouse | hang property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ride | past | a priest | past property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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