The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 73
‘The thread must have been rotten,’ she said to herself.
Who acts: thread, One · What happens: be, say · To what, where: One · 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 (thread, One), 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 rotten | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 thread | det |
| 3 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rotten | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 rotten | aux |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 rotten | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 rotten | cop |
| 7 | rotten | rotten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rotten | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 rotten | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 herself | case |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 said | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must · perfect | the thread | rotten property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | One | One | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient |
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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