The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 111
The two sisters returned home, but the wife followed the hoodie.
Who acts: two sisters, wife · What happens: return, follow · To what, where: hoodie
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 (two sisters, wife), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sisters | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 sisters | nummod |
| 3 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 returned | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 followed | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 followed | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wife | det |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 followed | nsubj |
| 10 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 returned | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hoodie | det |
| 12 | hoodie | hoodie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 followed | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the two sisters | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | past | the wife | the hoodie | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoodie=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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