The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 30
‘Something strange must have occurred,’ exclaimed the old farmer on the moor, who by this time was not only hungry, but cross.
Who acts: old farmer · What happens: occur, exclaim, not be · To what, where: Something, old farmer, moor
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 (old farmer), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 occurred | punct |
| 2 | Something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 occurred | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Something | amod |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 occurred | aux |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 occurred | aux |
| 6 | occurred | occur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 exclaimed | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 occurred | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 occurred | punct |
| 9 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 farmer | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 farmer | amod |
| 12 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 exclaimed | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 moor | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 moor | det |
| 15 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 farmer | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hungry | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 hungry | nsubj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 time | det |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hungry | obl |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 hungry | cop |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 hungry | advmod |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 hungry | advmod |
| 24 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 farmer | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 cross | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 cross | cc |
| 27 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 exclaimed | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | must · perfect · passive | Something | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | the old farmer | the moor | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent farmer=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not is | past | the old farmer | time | hungry property | tree rules |
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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