The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 1

Now there was to be a race in the town, and everyone meant to be there, except the stranger who had come over the hill of poison--everyone, that is, but the cook, who was to make the bridal supper.

Who acts: everyone, stranger, cook · What happens: be, mean, come · To what, where: race, town, hill

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everyone, stranger, cook), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 was	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	7 race	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 race	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 race	det
7	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	ccomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 town	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 town	det
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 race	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 meant	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 meant	cc
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 meant	nsubj
14	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 was	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	17 there	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 there	cop
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 meant	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stranger	punct
19	except	except	ADP	_	21 stranger	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 stranger	det
21	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 meant	conj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 come	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 come	aux
24	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 stranger	acl:relcl
25	over	over	ADP	_	27 hill	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hill	det
27	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 come	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 poison	case
29	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hill	nmod
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 everyone	punct
31	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	27 hill	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 is	punct
33	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 is	nsubj
34	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 everyone	acl:relcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 make	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 make	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 cook	det
38	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 make	nsubj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 make	punct
40	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 make	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 make	cop
42	to	to	PART	_	43 make	mark
43	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 meant	conj
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 supper	det
45	bridal	bridal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 supper	amod
46	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 make	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past			there	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive		a race	the town			tree rules
3	mean	past	everyone					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	is	to-infinitive	everyone not said here				there property	tree rules
5	come	past · perfect	the stranger		the hill of poison			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over hill=Initial_Location
6	be	present						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past	the cook				make 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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