The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 42
No man was present, but only some women spinning at their wheels.
Who acts: man, women · What happens: be, spin · To what, where: wheels
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 (man, women), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 present | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 present | cop |
| 4 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 women | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 women | cc |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 women | advmod |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 women | det |
| 9 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 present | parataxis |
| 10 | spinning | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 women | acl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 wheels | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wheels | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 spinning | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 present | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | no man | present property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spin | gerund | some women not said here | people's wheels | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at wheel=Trajectory |
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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