The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 85
She was late at the chapel, and was sorry all the day after, for her husband was in grief about it, and she was very fond of him.
Who acts: friend, husband · What happens: be · To what, where: chapel
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 (friend, husband), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 chapel | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 chapel | cop |
| 3 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 chapel | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 chapel | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chapel | det |
| 6 | chapel | chapel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sorry | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sorry | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sorry | cop |
| 10 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chapel | appos |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 day | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 after | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | after | after | ADV | _ | 10 sorry | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 grief | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 grief | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 husband | nmod:poss |
| 18 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 grief | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 grief | cop |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 grief | case |
| 21 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sorry | conj |
| 22 | about | about | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 grief | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 fond | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 fond | cc |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 fond | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 fond | cop |
| 28 | very | very | ADV | _ | 29 fond | advmod |
| 29 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chapel | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 fond | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 chapel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | friend | the chapel | late property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | after, sorry property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | friend's husband | for grief; about chapel | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | friend | of husband; fond 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/85/