The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 89
The witch’s daughter looked on with greedy eyes, and, says she, ‘What would you be satisfied to take for that scissors?’
Who acts: daughter · What happens: look on, say, be, take · To what, where: daughter · 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 (daughter), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 witch | det |
| 2 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 witch | case |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 looked | compound:prt |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 eyes | case |
| 8 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eyes | amod |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 looked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 says | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 says | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 and | punct |
| 13 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | parataxis |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 says | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 satisfied | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 satisfied | punct |
| 17 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 satisfied | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 satisfied | aux |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 satisfied | nsubj |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 satisfied | cop |
| 21 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 says | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 take | mark |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 satisfied | xcomp |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 scissors | case |
| 25 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 scissors | det |
| 26 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 take | obl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 21 satisfied | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look on | past | the witch's daughter | with greedy eyes | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | daughter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | would | satisfied property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | for that scissors | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for scissors=Beneficiary |
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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