The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 27
I find out where the stories are, and advise, and, in short, superintend.
Who acts: I, stories · What happens: find out, be, superintend · To what, where: advise
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 (I, stories), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 find | nsubj |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 find | compound:prt |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 advise | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stories | det |
| 6 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 advise | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 advise | cop |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 advise | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 advise | cc |
| 10 | advise | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 find | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 superintend | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 superintend | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 and | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 short | case |
| 15 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 superintend | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 short | punct |
| 17 | superintend | superintend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 find | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out | present | I | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the stories | advise | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | superintend | infinitive | I not said here | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=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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