The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 37
‘Where are you?’ said the voice, and the sheep answered:
Who acts: you, sheep · What happens: be, say, answer · To what, where: voice · 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 (you, sheep), 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 | _ | 2 Where | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 said | advmod |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Where | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Where | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Where | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 answered | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 voice | det |
| 9 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 answered | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sheep | det |
| 13 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 answered | nsubj |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the sheep not said here | the voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent voice=Topic | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the sheep | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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