The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 45
Well, in one day it shall be rooted up and ploughed and sown, and the grain shall ripen, and of that wheat I will bake the cakes for my daughter’s wedding.’
Who acts: grain, I · What happens: root up, plough, sow, ripen, bake · To what, where: hill, cakes
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grain, I), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 9 rooted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 day | nummod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rooted | obl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 rooted | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 rooted | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 rooted | aux:pass |
| 9 | rooted | root | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 ripen | advcl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 rooted | compound:prt |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ploughed | cc |
| 12 | ploughed | plough | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 rooted | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sown | cc |
| 14 | sown | sow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 ploughed | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ripen | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ripen | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 grain | det |
| 18 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ripen | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 ripen | aux |
| 20 | ripen | ripen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 bake | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 bake | cc |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 wheat | case |
| 24 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 wheat | det |
| 25 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bake | obl |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 bake | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 bake | aux |
| 28 | bake | bake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 ripen | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 cakes | det |
| 30 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 bake | obj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 daughter | case |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 33 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bake | obl |
| 34 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 bake | conj |
| 35 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 ’s | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 ripen | punct |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 ripen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | root up | shall · passive | hill | day | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | plough | participle | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | sow | participle | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | ripen | shall | the grain | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | bake | future | I | the cakes | of that wheat; for my daughter | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent cake=Material for daughter=Beneficiary |
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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