The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 113
But by the time she had got to the top of the hill, he would be in the valley on the other side.
Who acts: wife, hoodie · What happens: get, be · To what, where: time, valley
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 (wife, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 valley | cc |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 valley | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 got | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | aux |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 time | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 top | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 top | det |
| 10 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 hill | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hill | det |
| 13 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 top | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 valley | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 valley | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 valley | cop |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 valley | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 valley | det |
| 20 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 side | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 side | det |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 side | amod |
| 24 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 valley | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 valley | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect | wife | the time not said here | to the top of the hill | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer time=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | would | hoodie | the valley | time | on the other side | tree rules |
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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