The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 92
However, after a night’s rest he was in a better temper, and thought that he might be more lucky the third time, so back he went to the old place.
Who acts: lord · What happens: be, think, go · To what, where: better temper, old place · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (lord), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 13 temper | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 rest | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 night | det |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rest | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 night | case |
| 7 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 temper | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 temper | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 temper | cop |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 temper | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 temper | det |
| 12 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 temper | amod |
| 13 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thought | cc |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 temper | parataxis |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 lucky | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 lucky | nsubj |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 lucky | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 lucky | cop |
| 21 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 lucky | amod |
| 22 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 thought | ccomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 time | det |
| 24 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 time | amod |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lucky | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 went | punct |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 back | advmod |
| 28 | back | back | ADV | _ | 30 went | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 went | nsubj |
| 30 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 thought | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 place | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 place | det |
| 33 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 place | amod |
| 34 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 went | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 temper | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | lord | a better temper | after a night's rest | however property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | might | lord | time | lucky property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | go | past | lord | the old place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_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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