The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 88
By the time they arrived there it was midday, and the fisherman and his charges went up to an official who was standing about.
Who acts: boys, half, fisherman, official, forehead · What happens: arrive, be, go up, stand, charge · To what, where: midday
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, half, fisherman, official), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrived | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 arrived | nsubj |
| 5 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 arrived | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 midday | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 midday | cop |
| 9 | midday | midday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrived | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fisherman | det |
| 13 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 charges | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 charges | nmod:poss |
| 16 | charges | charge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fisherman | conj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arrived | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 went | compound:prt |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 official | case |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 official | det |
| 21 | official | official | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 standing | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 standing | aux |
| 24 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 official | acl:relcl |
| 25 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 standing | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | boys = boy | there | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | half | midday | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go up | past | the fisherman and forehead's charges | to a official | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | stand | past · progressive | a official | about property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | charge | forehead | nom charge «act 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 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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