The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 49
Next morning was a holiday, and Barbaik was awake earlier than usual, as she wished to get through her work as soon as possible, and be ready to start for a dance which was to be held some distance off.
Who acts: Next morning, Barbaik · What happens: be, wish, get, start, hold, work · To what, where: holiday, work, dance
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 (Next morning, Barbaik), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 holiday | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 holiday | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 holiday | det |
| 5 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 awake | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 awake | cc |
| 8 | Barbaik | Barbaik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 awake | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 awake | cop |
| 10 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 holiday | acl:relcl |
| 11 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 awake | advmod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 usual | case |
| 13 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 earlier | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wished | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 wished | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wished | nsubj |
| 17 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 awake | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 get | mark |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wished | xcomp |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 work | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 work | nmod:poss |
| 22 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 get | obl |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 soon | advmod |
| 24 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 get | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 possible | mark |
| 26 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 soon | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 ready | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 ready | cc |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 ready | cop |
| 30 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 holiday | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 start | mark |
| 32 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 ready | xcomp |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 dance | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 dance | det |
| 35 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 start | obl |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 held | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 held | aux:pass |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 held | mark |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 held | aux:pass |
| 40 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 dance | acl:relcl |
| 41 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 42 distance | det |
| 42 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 held | obj |
| 43 | off | off | ADP | _ | 42 distance | compound:prt |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 holiday | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Next morning | a holiday | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Barbaik | a holiday not said here | awake, early property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | wish | past | Barbaik | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | Barbaik not said here | Barbaik's work | soon property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through work=Destination | |||
| 5 | is | infinitive | Next morning not said here | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | start | to-infinitive | Next morning not said here | for a dance | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | hold | past · passive | Next morning not said here | a dance | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme distance=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | work | Barbaik | 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.
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