The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 82
They had three children, and my story happened while the youngest was a baby.
Who acts: farmer, story · What happens: have, happen, be · To what, where: three children, youngest baby
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 (farmer, story), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 children | nummod |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 happened | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 happened | cc |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 story | nmod:poss |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 happened | nsubj |
| 9 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 baby | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 baby | det |
| 12 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 baby | amod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 baby | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 baby | det |
| 15 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 happened | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | farmer | three children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | ||||
| 2 | happen | past | my story | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | my story not said here | the youngest baby | 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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