The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 6
‘Oh,’ says the princess, ‘it’s only the calf I got killed to-day.’
Who acts: ’, calf · What happens: say, be, kill · To what, where: princess, calf, I · 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 (’, calf), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 says | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | 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 | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 calf | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 calf | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 calf | nsubj |
| 11 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 calf | cop |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 calf | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 calf | det |
| 14 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | parataxis |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 killed | aux:pass |
| 17 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 calf | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 day | case |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 to | punct |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 killed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent princess=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | ’ = ' | the calf | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kill | past · passive | the calf not said here | I | day | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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