The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 56
The next morning Susan got up early to go to church at the neighbouring town, and she thought she would take some sausages to her aunt who lived there.
Who acts: next morning, Susan, aunt · What happens: get up, go, neighbour, think, take, live · To what, where: neighbouring town, sausages, aunt · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The War of the Wolf and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next morning, Susan, aunt), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 4 | Susan | Susan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 morning | appos |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 got | advmod |
| 7 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 got | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 got | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 church | case |
| 11 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 town | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 town | det |
| 14 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 town | amod |
| 15 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 thought | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 thought | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 thought | nsubj |
| 19 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 take | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 take | aux |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 thought | ccomp |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 sausages | det |
| 24 | sausages | sausage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 take | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 aunt | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 aunt | nmod:poss |
| 27 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obl |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 lived | nsubj |
| 29 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 aunt | acl:relcl |
| 30 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 lived | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | the next morning | early property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | the next morning not said here | the neighbouring town | to church | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | Susan | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | take | would | Susan | some sausages | Susan's aunt | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sausage=Theme to aunt=Destination | |||
| 6 | live | past | Susan's aunt | there | vn exist-47.1-1 «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 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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