The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 118
From hill to hill she went after the hoodie, and sometimes she saw him on the top; but when she got to the top, he had flown into the valley, and when she reached the valley he was on the top of another hill--and so it happened till night came round again.
Who acts: wife, hoodie, it, night · What happens: go, see, get, fly, reach, be · To what, where: hill, hoodie, top, 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, it, night), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 hill | case |
| 2 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 hill | case |
| 4 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hill | nmod |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 hoodie | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hoodie | det |
| 9 | hoodie | hoodie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 saw | cc |
| 12 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 saw | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 top | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 top | det |
| 18 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 flown | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 flown | cc |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 got | advmod |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 got | nsubj |
| 23 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 flown | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 top | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 top | det |
| 26 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 got | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 got | punct |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 flown | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 flown | aux |
| 30 | flown | fly | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 went | parataxis |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 valley | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 valley | det |
| 33 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 flown | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 reached | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 reached | cc |
| 36 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 38 reached | mark |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 reached | nsubj |
| 38 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 flown | advcl |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 valley | det |
| 40 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 reached | obj |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 top | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 top | cop |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 top | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 top | det |
| 45 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 reached | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 hill | case |
| 47 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 48 hill | det |
| 48 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 top | nmod |
| 49 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 53 happened | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 happened | cc |
| 51 | so | so | ADV | _ | 53 happened | advmod |
| 52 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 happened | nsubj |
| 53 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 54 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 56 came | mark |
| 55 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 came | nsubj |
| 56 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 happened | advcl |
| 57 | round | round | ADV | _ | 56 came | advmod |
| 58 | again | again | ADV | _ | 56 came | advmod |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | wife | hill to hill | after the hoodie | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from hill=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | see | past | wife | hoodie | the top | sometimes property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | get | past | wife | to the top result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to top=Result | ||||
| 4 | fly | past · perfect | hoodie | into the valley result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into valley=Result | ||||
| 5 | reach | past | wife | the valley | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent valley=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | past | hoodie | the top | of another hill | tree rules | |||
| 7 | happen | past | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | come round | past | night | again | round property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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