The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 91
At length she caught some words uttered by one man to another.
Who acts: wedding · What happens: catch, utter · To what, where: words, length, another
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 (wedding), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caught | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 caught | nsubj |
| 4 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 words | det |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 caught | obj |
| 7 | uttered | utter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 words | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 man | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 man | nummod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 uttered | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 another | case |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 uttered | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | wedding | some words | length | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent word=Theme at length=Asset | |||
| 2 | utter speech: other | participle | some words not said here | another | by one man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to another=Recipient |
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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