The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 22
‘Very well,’ said he, ‘I will do that, and whenever you feel inclined to return, only mention your wish when you lie down at night.’
Who acts: prince, I, you, your · What happens: say, do, feel, return, mention, lie down · To what, where: that, wish · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, I, you, your), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | conj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 do | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 feel | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 feel | cc |
| 16 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 feel | advmod |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 feel | nsubj |
| 18 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | parataxis |
| 19 | inclined | inclined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 feel | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 return | mark |
| 21 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 inclined | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 mention | punct |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 mention | advmod |
| 24 | mention | mention | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 feel | conj |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 wish | nmod:poss |
| 26 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mention | obj |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 lie | advmod |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 lie | nsubj |
| 29 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 mention | advcl |
| 30 | down | down | ADP | _ | 29 lie | compound:prt |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 night | case |
| 32 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lie | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 34 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | prince | well property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | future | I | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | feel | present | you | inclined, whenever property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | return | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | mention speech: other | infinitive | you not said here | your wish | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wish=Topic | ||||
| 6 | lie down | present | you | night | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | wish | your | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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