The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 99
But by this time night had come, and there was no light in the house, and the woman was in too much hurry to get to her treasures, to go and look for one.
Who acts: light, woman · What happens: come, be, get, go, look, treasure · To what, where: much hurry
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, woman), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 come | cc |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 night | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 night | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 night | compound |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | aux |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 was | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 was | cc |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | conj |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 light | det |
| 13 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 light | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hurry | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 hurry | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 woman | det |
| 20 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hurry | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 hurry | cop |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 hurry | case |
| 23 | too | too | ADV | _ | 24 much | advmod |
| 24 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hurry | amod |
| 25 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 get | mark |
| 27 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 hurry | acl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 treasures | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 treasures | nmod:poss |
| 30 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 get | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 go | punct |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 go | mark |
| 33 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 get | conj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 look | cc |
| 35 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 go | conj |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 one | case |
| 37 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 look | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | be | past | no light in the house | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the woman | much hurry | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | to woman's treasures result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to treasure=Result | |||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | look | infinitive | for one | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for one=Theme | |||||
| 7 | treasure | woman | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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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