The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 34
It was quite lost, of course, and there was no use thinking about it, and by the time we were safe back again night had come.
Who acts: use, we · What happens: lose, be, think, come · To what, where: sack
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (use, we), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lost | aux:pass |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 lost | advmod |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 of | punct |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 lost | obl |
| 7 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 of | fixed |
| 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 | 4 lost | conj |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 use | det |
| 13 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 14 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 use | acl |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thinking | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 safe | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 safe | cc |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 time | det |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 safe | obl |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 safe | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 safe | cop |
| 24 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 night | amod |
| 25 | back | back | ADV | _ | 24 safe | advmod |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 safe | advmod |
| 27 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 come | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 come | aux |
| 29 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 lost | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · passive | sack | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | be | past | no use | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | no use not said here | about sack | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is | past | we | again; time | safe property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | come | past · perfect | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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