The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 59
At that time the Editor was not afraid of the dark, for he thought, ‘If a ghost is here, we can’t see him.’
Who acts: Editor, ghost, we · What happens: not be, think, be, not see · To what, where: Editor · 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 (Editor, ghost, we), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 afraid | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Editor | det |
| 5 | Editor | Editor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 afraid | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 afraid | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 afraid | advmod |
| 8 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 dark | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dark | det |
| 11 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 afraid | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 thought | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 thought | nsubj |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 afraid | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 see | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 see | punct |
| 18 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 here | mark |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 ghost | det |
| 20 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 here | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 here | cop |
| 22 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 see | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 here | punct |
| 24 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 see | nsubj |
| 25 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 see | aux |
| 26 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 see | advmod |
| 27 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 thought | ccomp |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 see | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 afraid | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the Editor | time | of the dark; afraid property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Editor | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | a ghost | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not see | can | we | Editor | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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