The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 52
‘That is unlucky; and didn’t you tell me that the dressmaker was coming in to-morrow?’
Who acts: That, you, dressmaker · What happens: be, not tell, come in · To what, where: me, morrow · 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 (That, you, dressmaker), 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 unlucky | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 unlucky | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 unlucky | cop |
| 4 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 tell | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tell | cc |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 tell | aux |
| 8 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 tell | advmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 tell | nsubj |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 unlucky | conj |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 tell | iobj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 coming | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dressmaker | det |
| 14 | dressmaker | dressmaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 coming | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 coming | aux |
| 16 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 tell | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADV | _ | 16 coming | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 morrow | case |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 to | punct |
| 20 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 coming | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 unlucky | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 unlucky | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | unlucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert | past · do-support | you | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | come in | past · progressive | the dressmaker | morrow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial_Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/10/52/