The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 10
With some difficulty they secured the chest, and carried it back as swiftly and secretly as possible to the jogi’s house.
Who acts: joy · What happens: secure, carry back · To what, where: chest
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joy), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 difficulty | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 difficulty | det |
| 3 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 secured | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 secured | nsubj |
| 5 | secured | secure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chest | det |
| 7 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 secured | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 carried | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 carried | cc |
| 10 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 secured | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 carried | obj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 carried | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 swiftly | advmod |
| 14 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 10 carried | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 secretly | cc |
| 16 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 14 swiftly | conj |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 possible | mark |
| 18 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 carried | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 jogi | det |
| 21 | jogi | jogi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 house | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 jogi | case |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 possible | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 secured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | secure | past | joy | the chest | with some difficulty | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent chest=Patient with difficulty=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | carry back | past | joy not said here | chest | swiftly property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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