The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 43
If any big girl of fourteen reads this preface, let her insist on being presented with ‘Five Old Friends.’
Who acts: big girl, you, girl · What happens: read, let, insist, present · To what, where: preface, girl
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 (big girl, you, girl), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 reads | mark |
| 2 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 girl | det |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 girl | amod |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reads | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 fourteen | case |
| 6 | fourteen | fourteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 girl | nmod |
| 7 | reads | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 let | advcl |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 preface | det |
| 9 | preface | preface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reads | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 reads | punct |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 let | obj |
| 13 | insist | insist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | xcomp |
| 14 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 16 presented | mark |
| 15 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 presented | aux:pass |
| 16 | presented | present | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 insist | xcomp |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 Friends | case |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 Friends | punct |
| 19 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 Friends | nummod |
| 20 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Friends | amod |
| 21 | Friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 presented | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read a condition, not said to happen | present | any big girl of fourteen | this preface | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent preface=Topic | ||||
| 2 | let | imperative | you not said here | girl | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | insist speech: other | infinitive | girl not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | present | gerund · passive | girl not said here | with Five Old Friends | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: with friend=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 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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