The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 81
The girls were accustomed to his ingratitude, and went on their way and did their business in town.
What happens: accustom, go, do · To what, where: girls, way, business, town
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girls | det |
| 2 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 accustomed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 accustomed | aux:pass |
| 4 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 ingratitude | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ingratitude | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ingratitude | ingratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 accustomed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 accustomed | parataxis |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 way | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 way | nmod:poss |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 did | cc |
| 15 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 business | nmod:poss |
| 17 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 did | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 town | case |
| 19 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 did | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 accustomed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accustom | past · passive | the girls | to man's ingratitude | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | girls's way | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location | |||||
| 3 | do | past | girls's business | town | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Eventuality |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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