The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 20
So on a fine day the girl and her husband, and the father and his wife all went out upon the moor.
Who acts: father · What happens: go out
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 (father), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 4 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 day | amod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 So | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 day | appos |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 husband | cc |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 husband | nmod:poss |
| 10 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 girl | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 father | det |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wife | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 father | conj |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 girl | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 moor | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 moor | det |
| 23 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the father and father's wife | upon the moor; all, out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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