The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 135
But when at last she was over, it was only to hear that her husband was to be married that day to the daughter of a great lord.
Who acts: girl, flesh · What happens: be, marry · To what, where: husband
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 (girl, flesh), 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 | _ | 4 last | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 last | advmod |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 last | case |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 over | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 over | cop |
| 7 | over | over | ADV | _ | 4 last | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hear | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hear | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hear | cop |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 hear | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 hear | mark |
| 13 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 last | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 married | mark |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 husband | nmod:poss |
| 16 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 married | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 married | aux:pass |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 married | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 married | aux:pass |
| 20 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 hear | advcl |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 day | det |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 married | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 daughter | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 daughter | det |
| 25 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 married | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 lord | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 lord | det |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 lord | amod |
| 29 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 daughter | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 last | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | girl | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | flesh | hear property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | marry | past · passive | girl's husband | day | to the daughter of a great lord | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to daughter=Co-Patient |
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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