The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 52

Next morning, just before sunrise, he was up, and prepared to be off, ‘Here,’ said he to her, ‘is a thing which may be of use to you.

Who acts: ointment, ‘, thing · What happens: be, say · To what, where: eagle, thing, you · 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 (ointment, ‘, thing), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 prepared	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sunrise	punct
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 sunrise	advmod
5	before	before	ADP	_	6 sunrise	case
6	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 morning	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 morning	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 was	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 prepared	cop
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 was	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 prepared	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 prepared	cc
13	prepared	prepared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 said	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	16 off	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 off	cop
16	off	off	ADP	_	13 prepared	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Here	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 Here	punct
19	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 prepared	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Here	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 prepared	punct
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 her	case
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 thing	punct
27	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 thing	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 thing	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 thing	det
30	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	ccomp
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 use	nsubj
32	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 use	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 use	cop
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 use	case
35	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 thing	acl:relcl
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 you	case
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 use	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				morning	prepared property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	ointment		eagle			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
3	is a	present	‘	a thing				tree rules
4	is	may	a thing		you		of use	tree rules

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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