The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 9
(as if they should ask a painter ‘Are you painting anything now?’ or a lawyer ‘Have you any cases at present?’).
Who acts: ladies, you · What happens: ask, paint, have · To what, where: painter, anything, lawyer, present
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 (ladies, you), 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 | _ | 6 ask | punct |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 ask | mark |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 ask | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ask | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 ask | aux |
| 6 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 painter | det |
| 8 | painter | painter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ask | obj |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 painting | punct |
| 10 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 painting | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 painting | nsubj |
| 12 | painting | paint | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 ask | advcl |
| 13 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 painting | obj |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 painting | advmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 ask | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 ask | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 lawyer | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 lawyer | det |
| 19 | lawyer | lawyer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Have | obl |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 lawyer | punct |
| 21 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ask | parataxis |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 Have | nsubj |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 cases | det |
| 24 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 Have | obj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 present | case |
| 26 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Have | obl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 ask | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 ask | punct |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 ask | punct |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | should | ladies = lady | a painter | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent painter=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | paint | present · progressive | you | anything | now | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent anything=Destination | |||
| 3 | have | present | you | a lawyer | present | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent case=Patient |
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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