The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 37
‘This time the donkey was much further than before, and it took longer to find her.
Who acts: it · What happens: be, take, find · To what, where: donkey
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 (it), 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 | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 further | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 donkey | det |
| 5 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 further | cop |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 further | advmod |
| 8 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 took | advmod |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 before | case |
| 10 | before | before | ADV | _ | 8 further | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 took | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 find | mark |
| 17 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 took | advcl |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 find | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | time | far property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | it | long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | donkey | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
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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