The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 129

Each morning they both worked for an hour at reading and writing, as they had always done, and Elsa was anxious to learn all she could, but Kisika much preferred childish games to anything else.

Who acts: things, Elsa, Kisika · What happens: work, do, be, learn, prefer · To what, where: all, childish games

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, Elsa, Kisika), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 morning	det
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 worked	obl:unmarked
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 worked	nsubj
4	both	both	ADV	_	5 worked	advmod
5	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 hour	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hour	det
8	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 worked	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 reading	case
10	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 worked	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 writing	cc
12	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reading	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 done	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 done	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 done	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 done	aux
17	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	18 done	advmod
18	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 worked	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 anxious	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 anxious	cc
21	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 anxious	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 anxious	cop
23	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 done	parataxis
24	to	to	PART	_	25 learn	mark
25	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 anxious	advcl
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 learn	obj
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 could	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 all	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 preferred	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 preferred	cc
31	Kisika	Kisika	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 preferred	nsubj
32	much	much	ADV	_	33 preferred	advmod
33	preferred	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 worked	conj
34	childish	childish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 games	amod
35	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 preferred	obj
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 anything	case
37	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	33 preferred	obl
38	else	else	ADV	_	37 anything	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 worked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	work	past	things = thing		hour; morning	at reading and writing; both property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at reading=Theme
2	do	past · perfect	things = thing			always property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Elsa			anxious property	tree rules
4	learn	to-infinitive	Elsa not said here	all			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Topic
5	prefer	past	Kisika	childish games		to anything	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer game=Stimulus

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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