The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 24
So all went well and happily for a time, but then she began to be very sad and sorrowful, for all day long she had to go about alone; and she did so wish to go home to her father and mother and brothers and sisters.
Who acts: door, day · What happens: go, begin, be, have, go about, wish · To what, where: day
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, day), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 happily | cc |
| 6 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 4 well | conj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 began | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 began | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 began | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 began | nsubj |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 sad | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sad | cop |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 sad | advmod |
| 18 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 began | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sorrowful | cc |
| 20 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sad | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 day | punct |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 day | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 day | det |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 began | obl |
| 25 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 day | advmod |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 had | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 day | acl:relcl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 go | mark |
| 29 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 had | xcomp |
| 30 | about | about | ADV | _ | 31 alone | advmod |
| 31 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 29 go | advmod |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 wish | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 wish | cc |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 wish | nsubj |
| 35 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 wish | aux |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 wish | advmod |
| 37 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 go | mark |
| 39 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 wish | xcomp |
| 40 | home | home | ADV | _ | 39 go | advmod |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 father | case |
| 42 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 father | nmod:poss |
| 43 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 go | obl |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 mother | cc |
| 45 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 father | conj |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 brothers | cc |
| 47 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 father | conj |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 sisters | cc |
| 49 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 brothers | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | time | well property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | door | then; day | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | door not said here | sad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | door not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | have | past | door | all day not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | go about | to-infinitive | all day not said here | alone property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | wish | past · do-support | door | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | door not said here | to door's father and mother and brothers and sisters; home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial_Location |
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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