The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 56

Soon even this grew to be unnecessary, for a day arrived when, coming downstairs, she discovered that the house was swept, the furniture polished, the fire lit, and the food ready, so that she had nothing to do except to ring the great bell which summoned the labourers from the fields to come and eat it.

Who acts: this, day, pound, great bell · What happens: grow, be, arrive, come, discover, sweep · To what, where: house, furniture, nothing, great bell, labourers, fields

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 (this, day, pound, great bell), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 grew	advmod
2	even	even	ADV	_	4 grew	advmod
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 unnecessary	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 unnecessary	cop
7	unnecessary	unnecessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grew	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 arrived	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 arrived	mark
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 arrived	nsubj
12	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grew	conj
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 coming	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 coming	punct
15	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 arrived	advcl
16	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	_	15 coming	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 discovered	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 discovered	nsubj
19	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grew	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 swept	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 house	det
22	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 swept	nsubj:pass
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 swept	aux:pass
24	swept	sweep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 discovered	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 swept	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 furniture	det
27	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 swept	obj
28	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 furniture	acl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 lit	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 lit	det
31	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lit	compound
32	lit	lit	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 furniture	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 ready	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 ready	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 food	det
36	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 ready	nsubj
37	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 swept	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 had	punct
39	so	so	ADV	_	42 had	advmod
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 had	mark
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 had	nsubj
42	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grew	conj
43	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	42 had	obj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 do	mark
45	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 nothing	acl
46	except	except	ADP	_	48 ring	mark
47	to	to	PART	_	48 ring	mark
48	ring	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 do	advcl
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 bell	det
50	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 bell	amod
51	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 ring	obj
52	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 summoned	nsubj
53	summoned	summon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 bell	acl:relcl
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 labourers	det
55	labourers	labourer	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 summoned	obj
56	from	from	ADP	_	58 fields	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 fields	det
58	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 summoned	obl
59	to	to	PART	_	60 come	mark
60	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 summoned	advcl
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 eat	cc
62	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 come	conj
63	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 eat	obj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	this			soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	this not said here			unnecessary property	tree rules
3	arrive	past	a day				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	gerund	a day not said here			downstairs property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	discover	past	pound				vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	sweep	past · passive		the house			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme furniture=Destination
7	polish	participle		the furniture and the fire lit not said here			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
8	have	past	pound	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
9	do	to-infinitive	pound not said here	nothing not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	ring	to-infinitive	pound not said here	the great bell			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme
11	summon	past	the great bell	the labourers	the fields		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent labourer=Recipient
12	come	to-infinitive	the great bell not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
13	eat	infinitive	the great bell not said here	bell			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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