The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 31
‘Two or three weeks passed, and only bare places on the donkey’s back showed where the lion’s claws had been, while, on his side, the lion had recovered from his illness and was now as strong as ever.
Who acts: Two weeks, bare places, claws · What happens: pass, show, be, recover · To what, where: lion, side · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two weeks, bare places, claws), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 passed | punct |
| 2 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 weeks | nummod |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 three | cc |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 Two | conj |
| 5 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 passed | nsubj |
| 6 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 showed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 showed | cc |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 places | advmod |
| 10 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 places | amod |
| 11 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 showed | nsubj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 back | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 donkey | det |
| 14 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 back | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 donkey | case |
| 16 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 places | nmod |
| 17 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 passed | conj |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 been | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lion | det |
| 20 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 claws | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 lion | case |
| 22 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 been | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 been | aux |
| 24 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 showed | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 recovered | punct |
| 26 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 35 recovered | mark |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 side | punct |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 side | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 side | nmod:poss |
| 30 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 recovered | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 side | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 lion | det |
| 33 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 recovered | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 recovered | aux |
| 35 | recovered | recover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 showed | conj |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 illness | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 illness | nmod:poss |
| 38 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 recovered | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 strong | cc |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 strong | cop |
| 41 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 43 strong | advmod |
| 42 | as | as | ADV | _ | 43 strong | advmod |
| 43 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 recovered | conj |
| 44 | as | as | ADP | _ | 45 ever | case |
| 45 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 43 strong | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Two weeks | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | show | past | bare places on the donkey's back | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | be | past · perfect | the lion's claws | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | recover | past · perfect · passive | the lion | lion's side | from lion's illness | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from illness=Source | |||
| 5 | is | past | now | strong property | tree rules |
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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