The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 10

Happy indeed were they to be together again, and little did they mind that the hill of poison took long to cross, for she had to go some way forwards, and then throw the horse-shoes back for him to put on.

Who acts: spells, hill, cook · What happens: be, mind, take, cross, have, go · To what, where: way, horse shoes

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 (spells, hill, 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	Happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	1 Happy	advmod
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 together	cop
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 together	nsubj
5	to	to	PART	_	7 together	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 together	cop
7	together	together	ADV	_	1 Happy	conj
8	again	again	ADV	_	7 together	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mind	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 mind	cc
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mind	advcl
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 mind	aux
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 mind	nsubj
14	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Happy	parataxis
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 took	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hill	det
17	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 took	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 poison	case
19	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hill	nmod
20	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 mind	advcl
21	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 took	xcomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 cross	mark
23	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 long	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 had	case
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 took	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 go	mark
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 had	xcomp
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 way	det
31	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 go	obl:unmarked
32	forwards	forwards	ADV	_	29 go	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 throw	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 throw	cc
35	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 throw	advmod
36	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 mind	advcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 shoes	det
38	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 shoes	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 horse	punct
40	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 throw	obj
41	back	back	ADV	_	36 throw	advmod
42	for	for	SCONJ	_	45 put	mark
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 put	nsubj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 put	mark
45	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 throw	advcl
46	on	on	ADP	_	45 put	compound:prt
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Happy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	spells = spell		again	together property	tree rules
2	mind	past · do-support	spells = spell				vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	take	past	the hill of poison			long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	cross	to-infinitive	the hill of poison not said here				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have	past	hill				tree rules
6	go	to-infinitive	hill not said here	some way		forwards property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	throw	infinitive	spells = spell not said here	the horse shoes	then		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme
8	put on	to-infinitive	cook				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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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