The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 4
It was the spring, and just the time of year when the dwarfs held their fete, so one day the brownie asked Jegu if he might bring his friends to have supper in the great barn, and whether he would allow them to dance there.
Who acts: chance, dwarfs, brownie, Jegu · What happens: be, hold, ask, bring, have, allow · To what, where: spring, fete, Jegu, friends, supper, great barn
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chance, dwarfs, brownie, Jegu), 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 | 4 spring | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spring | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 spring | det |
| 4 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 time | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 time | cc |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 time | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spring | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 year | case |
| 11 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 time | nmod |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 held | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dwarfs | det |
| 14 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 held | nsubj |
| 15 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 time | advcl |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 fete | nmod:poss |
| 17 | fete | fete | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 held | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 asked | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 asked | advmod |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 day | nummod |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 brownie | det |
| 23 | brownie | brownie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 asked | nsubj |
| 24 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spring | conj |
| 25 | Jegu | Jegu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 asked | iobj |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 bring | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 bring | nsubj |
| 28 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 bring | aux |
| 29 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 asked | ccomp |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 friends | nmod:poss |
| 31 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 bring | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 have | mark |
| 33 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 bring | advcl |
| 34 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 have | obj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 barn | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 barn | det |
| 37 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 barn | amod |
| 38 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 have | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 allow | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 allow | cc |
| 41 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 44 allow | mark |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 allow | nsubj |
| 43 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 allow | aux |
| 44 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 spring | conj |
| 45 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 allow | iobj |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 dance | mark |
| 47 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 allow | xcomp |
| 48 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 47 dance | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | chance | the spring and the time of year | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | the dwarfs | dwarfs's fete | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fete=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the brownie | Jegu | day | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent jegu=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | bring a condition, not said to happen | might | Jegu | Jegu's friends | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument friend=Destination | ||||
| 5 | have | to-infinitive | Jegu not said here | supper | the great barn | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient | |||
| 6 | allow | would | Jegu | friends = friend | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer they=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | dance not said to happen | to-infinitive | Jegu not said here | there | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | fete | dwarfs = dwarf | nom fete «event transitive»: 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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