The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 9
It took some time to discover the whereabouts of the old woman, but at length it was accomplished, and when she arrived at the palace with the equerry, she was received with royal honours, as became the bride of the prince.
Who acts: It, woman · What happens: take, discover, accomplish, arrive, receive, become · To what, where: whereabouts, length, palace, woman, bride
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, woman), 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 | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 discover | mark |
| 6 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 time | acl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 whereabouts | det |
| 8 | whereabouts | whereabouts | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 discover | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 woman | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 whereabouts | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 accomplished | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 accomplished | cc |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 length | case |
| 16 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 accomplished | obl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 accomplished | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 accomplished | aux:pass |
| 19 | accomplished | accomplish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 took | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 received | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 received | cc |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 arrived | advmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 arrived | nsubj |
| 24 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 received | advcl |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 palace | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 palace | det |
| 27 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 arrived | obl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 equerry | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 equerry | det |
| 30 | equerry | equerry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 palace | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 arrived | punct |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 received | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 received | aux:pass |
| 34 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 took | parataxis |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 honours | case |
| 36 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 honours | amod |
| 37 | honours | honour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 received | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 became | punct |
| 39 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 became | mark |
| 40 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 bride | det |
| 42 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 became | xcomp |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 prince | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 prince | det |
| 45 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 bride | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | It | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | discover | to-infinitive | the whereabouts of the old woman | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whereabouts=Topic | |||||
| 3 | accomplish | past · passive | length | length | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | arrive | past | woman | the palace with the equerry | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | receive | past · passive | woman | with royal honours | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | become | past | the bride of the prince | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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