The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 54
Then the smith came out, and says he, ‘It’s a shame for a strong, big fellow like you to be lazy, and so much work to be done.
Who acts: smith · What happens: come out, say, be, do · To what, where: smith · 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 (smith), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 smith | det |
| 3 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 says | cc |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | parataxis |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 says | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ’s | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 ’s | punct |
| 12 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ’s | nsubj |
| 13 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 lazy | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 shame | det |
| 15 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ’s | obj |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 fellow | mark |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 fellow | det |
| 18 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fellow | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 strong | punct |
| 20 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fellow | amod |
| 21 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shame | acl |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 fellow | nmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 lazy | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 lazy | cop |
| 26 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 says | ccomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 work | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 work | cc |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 much | advmod |
| 30 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 work | amod |
| 31 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lazy | parataxis |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 done | mark |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 done | aux:pass |
| 34 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 work | acl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | the smith | then | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | smith | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | lazy property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive · passive | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |
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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