The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 19
By and bye the season came when they must cut the peats and pile them up to dry, so that they might have fires in the winter.
Who acts: maidens · What happens: come, cut, pile up, dry, have · To what, where: peats, maidens, fires
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 (maidens), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 5 season | case |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 bye | cc |
| 3 | bye | bye | ADP | _ | 1 By | conj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 season | det |
| 5 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 cut | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cut | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 cut | aux |
| 10 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 came | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 peats | det |
| 12 | peats | peat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cut | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pile | cc |
| 14 | pile | pile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pile | obj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 pile | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 dry | mark |
| 18 | dry | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 pile | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 have | punct |
| 20 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 24 have | mark |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 so | fixed |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 have | nsubj |
| 23 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 have | aux |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 dry | conj |
| 25 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 have | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 winter | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 winter | det |
| 28 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fires | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | season | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cut | must | maidens = maiden | the peats | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset peat=Product | ||||
| 3 | pile up | present | maidens = maiden | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme they=Destination | |||||
| 4 | dry | to-infinitive | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | have | might | maidens = maiden | fires | in the winter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=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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