The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 108
So they set out in a coach which was big enough to hold them, and had not gone very far when the hoodie suddenly said:
Who acts: Husbands, coach, hoodie · What happens: set out, be, hold, not go, say · To what, where: coach, Husbands · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Husbands, coach, hoodie), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 set | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 coach | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 coach | det |
| 7 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obl |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 big | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 big | cop |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 coach | acl:relcl |
| 11 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 10 big | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 hold | mark |
| 13 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 big | advcl |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hold | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gone | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gone | cc |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 gone | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 gone | advmod |
| 19 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 set | conj |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 far | advmod |
| 21 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 gone | advmod |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 said | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hoodie | det |
| 24 | hoodie | hoodie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 said | nsubj |
| 25 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 26 said | advmod |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 far | advcl |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | Husbands = husband | a coach | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | a coach | big, enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hold | to-infinitive | a coach not said here | Husbands = husband | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not go | past · perfect | Husbands = husband not said here | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the hoodie | suddenly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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