The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 49
‘Here, my poor darling,’ says he, ‘is your eldest child, and there,’ says he, pointing to a woman that was looking on with a smile on her face, ‘is the eagle that carried him away.’
Who acts: sun, woman, ‘, eagle · What happens: say, be, point, look on, carry away · To what, where: eldest child, sun, woman, eagle · 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 (sun, woman, ‘, eagle), 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 | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 says | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 darling | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 darling | nmod:poss |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 darling | amod |
| 6 | darling | darling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Here | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 child | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 he | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 he | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 child | cop |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 child | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 child | amod |
| 16 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 there | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 there | cc |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 says | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 says | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 says | punct |
| 22 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 says | conj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 says | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 pointing | punct |
| 25 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 says | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 woman | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 woman | det |
| 28 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pointing | obl |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 looking | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 looking | aux |
| 31 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 woman | acl:relcl |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 looking | compound:prt |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 smile | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 smile | det |
| 35 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 looking | obl |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 face | case |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 face | nmod:poss |
| 38 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 smile | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 eagle | punct |
| 40 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 eagle | nsubj |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 eagle | cop |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 eagle | det |
| 43 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pointing | obl |
| 44 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 carried | nsubj |
| 45 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 eagle | acl:relcl |
| 46 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 carried | obj |
| 47 | away | away | ADV | _ | 45 carried | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 49 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | there | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | sun | your eldest child | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | sun | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||||
| 4 | point | gerund | a woman | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to woman=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | look on | past · progressive | a woman | with a smile on eagle's face | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | ‘ | the eagle | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | carry away | past | the eagle | sun | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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