The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 8
Their greatest delight was to be together, and so that they might get a good long talk, they went one evening for a walk in the wood.
Who acts: greatest delight, birds · What happens: be, get, go, delight · To what, where: good long talk
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jorinde and Joringel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (greatest delight, birds), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 delight | nmod:poss |
| 2 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 delight | amod |
| 3 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 together | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 together | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 together | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 together | cop |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 10 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 14 get | mark |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 so | fixed |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 get | nsubj |
| 13 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | aux |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 went | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 talk | det |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 talk | amod |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 talk | amod |
| 18 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 together | conj |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 evening | nummod |
| 23 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 walk | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 walk | det |
| 26 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 wood | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 wood | det |
| 29 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 walk | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 together | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | birds's greatest delight | together property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | might | birds = bird | a good long talk | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer talk=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go | past | birds = bird | evening | for a walk in the wood | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for walk=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | delight | birds = bird | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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