The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 14
One nymph who, like the rest, could not keep off the horrid topic of my occupation, said ‘You never write anything but fairy books, do you?’
Who acts: One nymph, You, my · What happens: not keep off, say, not write, do, occupy · To what, where: horrid topic, anything, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One nymph, You, my), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 nymph | nummod |
| 2 | nymph | nymph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 keep | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rest | punct |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 rest | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rest | det |
| 7 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 keep | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 keep | punct |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 keep | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 keep | advmod |
| 11 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 nymph | acl:relcl |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 keep | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 topic | det |
| 14 | horrid | horrid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 topic | amod |
| 15 | topic | topic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 keep | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 occupation | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 occupation | nmod:poss |
| 18 | occupation | occupation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 topic | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 nymph | punct |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 write | punct |
| 22 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 write | nsubj |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 write | advmod |
| 24 | write | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | ccomp |
| 25 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 24 write | obj |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 books | cc |
| 27 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 books | compound |
| 28 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 anything | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 do | punct |
| 30 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 write | conj |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 do | obj |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 33 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not keep off | could | One nymph | the horrid topic of my occupation | like the rest | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent topic=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | One nymph | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not write | present | You | anything | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | present | You not said here | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | occupy | my | nom occupation «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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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