The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 69
‘Ah, how clever you are,’ answered the other two.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, answer · To what, where: other two · 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 (you), 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 clever | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 clever | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 clever | punct |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 clever | advmod |
| 5 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 answered | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 clever | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 clever | cop |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 clever | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 clever | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 two | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 two | amod |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 answered | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the other two | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent two=Eventuality |
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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