The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 115
Well, prince and princess flew into one another’s arms, and says the little man, says he, ‘Why aren’t you eating?’
Who acts: prince, little man, you · What happens: fly, say, not be · To what, where: dinner · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, little man, 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 flew | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 princess | cc |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prince | conj |
| 6 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 one | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 flew | obl |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 arms | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 another | case |
| 11 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 one | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 says | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 says | cc |
| 14 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 flew | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 says | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 says | punct |
| 19 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 says | conj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 says | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 eating | punct |
| 22 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 eating | punct |
| 23 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 eating | advmod |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 eating | cop |
| 25 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 eating | advmod |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 eating | nsubj |
| 27 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 says | advcl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 27 eating | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | prince and princess | into one another's arms result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into one=Result | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the little man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | the little man not said here | dinner | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 4 | not is | present | you | eat property | tree rules |
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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