The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 52
This whistle has been known to bring the dead back to life, and I hoped--’ here he buried his face in his hands again, but peeping between his fingers he saw that the brother had opened their six eyes as wide as saucers.
Who acts: I, pair · What happens: know, bring, hope, bury, peep, see · To what, where: whistle, dead back, life, face, hands, brother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, pair), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 whistle | det |
| 2 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 known | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 known | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 known | aux:pass |
| 5 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 bring | mark |
| 7 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 known | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 back | det |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 back | amod |
| 10 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bring | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 life | case |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bring | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hoped | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hoped | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 hoped | nsubj |
| 16 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 known | parataxis |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 hoped | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 hoped | punct |
| 19 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 hoped | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 buried | nsubj |
| 21 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 hoped | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 face | nmod:poss |
| 23 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 buried | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 hands | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hands | nmod:poss |
| 26 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 buried | obl |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 buried | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 saw | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 saw | cc |
| 30 | peeping | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 saw | csubj |
| 31 | between | between | ADP | _ | 33 fingers | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 33 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 peeping | obl |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 saw | nsubj |
| 35 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 hoped | conj |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 opened | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 brother | det |
| 38 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 opened | aux |
| 40 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 saw | ccomp |
| 41 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 42 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 eyes | nummod |
| 43 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 opened | obj |
| 44 | as | as | ADV | _ | 45 wide | advmod |
| 45 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 opened | advcl |
| 46 | as | as | ADP | _ | 47 saucers | case |
| 47 | saucers | saucer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 wide | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · perfect · passive | this whistle | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bring | to-infinitive | the dead back | life | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent back=Theme to life=Destination | ||||
| 3 | hope | past | I | here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | bury | past | pair | pair's face | pair's hands | again | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent face=Theme in hand=Destination | ||
| 5 | peep | gerund | between pair's fingers | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent between finger=Theme | |||||
| 6 | see | past | pair | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | open | past · perfect · passive | the brother | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme eye=Destination |
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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