The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 10
‘It’s sleepy you are,’ says she; ‘go to bed.’
Who acts: meat · What happens: be, say, go · To what, where: princess, bed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meat), 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 sleepy | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sleepy | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sleepy | cop |
| 4 | sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 says | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 are | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sleepy | cop |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sleepy | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 says | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 says | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 bed | case |
| 15 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | meat | sleepy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | princess | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=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.
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