The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 71

It was he who ploughed and sowed and reaped, and if, as happened, occasionally, it was needful to get the work done quickly, the brownie called in some of his friends, and as soon as it was light a host of little dwarfs might have been seen in the fields, busy with hoe, fork or sickle.

Who acts: farmer · What happens: be, sow, reap, happen, get, do · To what, where: work, brownie, some, host, fields · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (farmer), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ploughed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ploughed	cop
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ploughed	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 ploughed	nsubj
5	ploughed	plough	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sowed	cc
7	sowed	sow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ploughed	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 reaped	cc
9	reaped	reap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sowed	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 happened	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 happened	cc
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 happened	mark
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 happened	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 happened	mark
15	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ploughed	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 occasionally	punct
17	occasionally	occasionally	ADV	_	15 happened	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 needful	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 needful	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 needful	cop
21	needful	needful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 happened	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 get	mark
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 needful	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 work	det
25	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obj
26	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 work	acl
27	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	26 done	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 brownie	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 brownie	det
30	brownie	brownie	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 work	conj
31	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 brownie	acl
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 some	case
33	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 called	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 friends	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 friends	nmod:poss
36	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 some	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 light	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 light	cc
39	as	as	ADV	_	40 soon	advmod
40	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	44 light	advmod
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 light	mark
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 light	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 light	cop
44	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ploughed	parataxis
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 host	det
46	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 seen	nsubj:pass
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 dwarfs	case
48	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 dwarfs	amod
49	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 host	nmod
50	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 seen	aux
51	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 seen	aux
52	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	53 seen	aux:pass
53	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 light	parataxis
54	in	in	ADP	_	56 fields	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 fields	det
56	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 seen	obl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 busy	punct
58	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 fields	amod
59	with	with	ADP	_	60 hoe	case
60	hoe	hoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 busy	obl
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 fork	punct
62	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 hoe	conj
63	or	or	CCONJ	_	64 sickle	cc
64	sickle	sickle	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 hoe	conj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ploughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	farmer			plough property	tree rules
2	sow	past	farmer not said here				vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
3	reap	past	farmer not said here				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	happen a condition, not said to happen	participle	farmer not said here			occasionally property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	farmer			needful property	tree rules
6	get	to-infinitive	farmer not said here	the work and the brownie			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer work=Stimulus
7	do	participle		the work and the brownie not said here		quickly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	call	participle		the brownie not said here	some		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	is	past	farmer			light, soon property	tree rules
10	see	might · perfect · passive		a host of little dwarfs	the fields		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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