The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 26
As the bride was nowhere in the kitchen or the dairy, the old woman went into the stable, where she found her daughter weeping bitterly.
Who acts: bride, old woman, woman · What happens: be, go, find, weep · To what, where: kitchen, stable, daughter
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 (bride, old woman, woman), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 kitchen | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bride | det |
| 3 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kitchen | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 kitchen | cop |
| 5 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 kitchen | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 kitchen | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 kitchen | det |
| 8 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | advcl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 dairy | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dairy | det |
| 11 | dairy | dairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kitchen | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 kitchen | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 woman | amod |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 stable | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stable | det |
| 19 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 found | punct |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 found | advmod |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 found | nsubj |
| 23 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 went | conj |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 25 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 found | obj |
| 26 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 found | advcl |
| 27 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 26 weeping | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the bride | the kitchen or the dairy | nowhere property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | past | the old woman | the stable | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into stable=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | find | past | woman | woman's daughter | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Topic | ||||
| 4 | weep | gerund | woman not said here | bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «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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