The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 85
‘At least, as I walked down the path a voice cried out “Robbery!
Who acts: I, voice · What happens: walk down, cry out · To what, where: path, least, Robbery
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, voice), 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 | _ | 7 walked | punct |
| 2 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 least | case |
| 3 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 walked | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 walked | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 walked | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 walked | nsubj |
| 7 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 path | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 path | det |
| 10 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walked | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 voice | det |
| 12 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | nsubj |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 walked | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 cried | compound:prt |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Robbery | punct |
| 16 | Robbery | robbery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk down | past | I | the path | least | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent path=Theme at least=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | a voice | Robbery | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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