The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 82
‘No, nothing; for I left the church at once, and did not stop to speak to anyone.’
Who acts: I · What happens: leave, not stop, speak · To what, where: church · 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 (I), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 nothing | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 nothing | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 nothing | punct |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 left | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 left | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 left | nsubj |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 church | det |
| 10 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 once | case |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 left | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stop | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stop | cc |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 stop | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 stop | advmod |
| 17 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 left | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 speak | mark |
| 19 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 stop | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 anyone | case |
| 21 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 speak | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 nothing | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 nothing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | I | the church | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent church=Theme at once=Location | ||||
| 2 | not stop | past · do-support | I not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | I not said here | to anyone | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to anyone=Co-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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