The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 84
One morning they all ran down to the river to wash their clothes, when a hoodie came round and sat on a tree close by.
Who acts: tears, hoodie · What happens: run down, wash, come round, sit · To what, where: clothes, tree
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 (tears, hoodie), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 morning | nummod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 they | det |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 ran | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 river | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 river | det |
| 9 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 wash | mark |
| 11 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ran | advcl |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 11 wash | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 18 came | mark |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hoodie | det |
| 17 | hoodie | hoodie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | parataxis |
| 19 | round | round | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sat | cc |
| 21 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 came | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 tree | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 tree | det |
| 24 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sat | obl |
| 25 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tree | amod |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 close | fixed |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run down | past | tears = tear | morning | to the river result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to river=Result | |||
| 2 | wash | to-infinitive | tears = tear not said here | tears's clothes | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient | ||||
| 3 | come round | past | a hoodie | round property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sit | past | a hoodie not said here | a tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tree=Location |
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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