The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 63
The wife made haste to do as she was bid, and there was no time to lose, for the robbers were drawing very near the house.
Who acts: robbers · What happens: make, do, bid, lose, draw · To what, where: wife, house
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robbers), 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 wife | det |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 haste | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 haste | amod |
| 4 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 haste | acl |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 bid | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bid | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 bid | aux:pass |
| 10 | bid | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 do | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 was | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 was | cc |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 was | expl |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 haste | acl |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 was | nsubj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 lose | mark |
| 18 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 time | acl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 drawing | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 drawing | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 robbers | det |
| 22 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 drawing | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 drawing | aux |
| 24 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 lose | advcl |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 near | advmod |
| 26 | near | near | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 house | det |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 drawing | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 haste | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | bid | past · passive | wife | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | lose | to-infinitive | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | draw | past · progressive | the robbers | the house | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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