The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 99
‘And do you know exactly the spot in the river which lies over the horse fair?’
Who acts: you, river · What happens: know, lie · To what, where: spot, river
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, river), 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 know | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 know | cc |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 8 spot | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 spot | det |
| 8 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 know | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 river | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 river | det |
| 11 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 know | obl |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 lies | nsubj |
| 13 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 river | acl:relcl |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 horse | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 horse | det |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lies | obl |
| 17 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lies | xcomp |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · do-support | you | the spot | the river | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer spot=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | lie | present | the river | over the horse; fair property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over horse=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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