The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 53
‘Yes, I did,’ and then suddenly she gave another little scream, which had quite a different sound from the first.
Who acts: dressmaker, little scream · What happens: ', give, have · To what, where: little scream, different sound, first
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 (dressmaker, little scream), 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 ’ | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 did | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ’ | aux |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ’ | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gave | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 gave | advmod |
| 10 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 12 gave | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | nsubj |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ’ | conj |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 scream | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 scream | amod |
| 15 | scream | scream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 scream | acl:relcl |
| 19 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 sound | det:predet |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 sound | det |
| 21 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sound | amod |
| 22 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 had | obj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 first | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 first | det |
| 25 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 sound | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ’ | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ' | past · do-support | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | give | past | dressmaker | another little scream | then | suddenly property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scream=Theme | ||
| 3 | have | past | another little scream | quite different sound | the first | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=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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