The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 99
‘No,’ says the second daughter’s sweetheart, ‘it is my turn first.’
Who acts: sword · What happens: say, be · To what, where: sweetheart, turn · 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 (sword), 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 | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 says | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 daughter | det |
| 7 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 daughter | amod |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sweetheart | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 daughter | case |
| 10 | sweetheart | sweetheart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 turn | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 turn | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 turn | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 turn | cop |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 turn | nmod:poss |
| 16 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | ccomp |
| 17 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 turn | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the second daughter's sweetheart | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sweetheart=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | sword | my turn | first 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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