The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 78
Each morning when she was obliged to get up before dawn to milk the cows and go to market, and each evening when she had to sit up till midnight in order to churn the butter, her heart was filled with rage against the brownie who had caused her to expect a life of ease and pleasure.
Who acts: Barbaik, brownie · What happens: oblige, get up, go, have, sit up, churn · To what, where: morning, cows, market, butter, heart, Barbaik
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 (Barbaik, brownie), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 morning | det |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 obliged | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 obliged | advmod |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 obliged | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 obliged | aux:pass |
| 6 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 obliged | xcomp |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 get | compound:prt |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 dawn | case |
| 11 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 milk | case |
| 13 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cows | det |
| 15 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 get | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 go | cc |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 get | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 market | case |
| 19 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 evening | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 evening | cc |
| 22 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 evening | det |
| 23 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 obliged | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 had | advmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 had | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 obliged | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 sit | mark |
| 28 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 had | xcomp |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 sit | compound:prt |
| 30 | till | till | ADP | _ | 31 midnight | case |
| 31 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sit | obl |
| 32 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 35 churn | mark |
| 33 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 in | fixed |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 churn | mark |
| 35 | churn | churn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 sit | advcl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 butter | det |
| 37 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 churn | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 filled | punct |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 heart | nmod:poss |
| 40 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 filled | aux:pass |
| 42 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 churn | conj |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 rage | case |
| 44 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 filled | obl |
| 45 | against | against | ADP | _ | 47 brownie | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 brownie | det |
| 47 | brownie | brownie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 rage | nmod |
| 48 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 50 caused | nsubj |
| 49 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 caused | aux |
| 50 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 47 brownie | acl:relcl |
| 51 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 caused | iobj |
| 52 | to | to | PART | _ | 53 expect | mark |
| 53 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 caused | xcomp |
| 54 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 55 life | det |
| 55 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 expect | obj |
| 56 | of | of | ADP | _ | 57 ease | case |
| 57 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 life | nmod |
| 58 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 59 pleasure | cc |
| 59 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 ease | conj |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | past · passive | each morning | evening | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 2 | get up | to-infinitive | the cows | dawn | to milk | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cow=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | go | infinitive | market | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to market=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | have | past | Barbaik | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | sit up | to-infinitive | Barbaik not said here | midnight | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | churn | to-infinitive | Barbaik not said here | the butter | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butter=Product | ||||
| 7 | fill | past · passive | Barbaik's heart | with rage against the brownie | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with rage=Instrument | ||||
| 8 | cause | past · perfect | the brownie | Barbaik | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | expect | to-infinitive | the brownie not said here | a life of ease and pleasure | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
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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