The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 22
He was tired with a long day’s work, and stood with his hand on the mane of one of the animals, waiting till they had done, and thinking all the while of Barbaik, when a voice came out of the gorse close by.
Who acts: Jegu, animals, voice, long day · What happens: be, stand, wait, do, think, come out · To what, where: mane, gorse
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 (Jegu, animals, voice, long day), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tired | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tired | cop |
| 3 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 work | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 work | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 day | case |
| 9 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tired | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stood | cc |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tired | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 hand | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hand | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 mane | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mane | det |
| 18 | mane | mane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 mane | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 animals | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 animals | det |
| 23 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 one | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 waiting | punct |
| 25 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 stood | advcl |
| 26 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 29 done | mark |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 done | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 done | aux |
| 29 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 waiting | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 thinking | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 thinking | cc |
| 32 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 stood | advcl |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 while | det:predet |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 while | det |
| 35 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 thinking | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Barbaik | case |
| 37 | Barbaik | Barbaik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 while | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 came | punct |
| 39 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 42 came | mark |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 voice | det |
| 41 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 came | nsubj |
| 42 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 while | parataxis |
| 43 | out | out | ADP | _ | 46 gorse | case |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 gorse | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 gorse | det |
| 46 | gorse | gorse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 came | obl |
| 47 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 gorse | amod |
| 48 | by | by | ADP | _ | 47 close | fixed |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Jegu | with a long day's work; tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | Jegu not said here | the mane of one of the animals | with Jegu's hand | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mane=Location | |||
| 3 | wait | gerund | Jegu not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect | animals = animal | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other | gerund | Jegu not said here | while | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | come out | past | a voice | the gorse | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient gorse=Result | ||||
| 7 | work | a long day | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/37/22/