The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 131
‘We can travel back to Europe,’ said the dream-boy with the fair hair.
Who acts: We, dream boy · What happens: travel back, say · To what, where: Europe · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, dream boy), 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 | _ | 4 travel | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 travel | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 travel | aux |
| 4 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 travel | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Europe | case |
| 7 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 travel | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 travel | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 travel | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 boy | det |
| 12 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 boy | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 dream | punct |
| 14 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 hair | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hair | det |
| 17 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hair | amod |
| 18 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 boy | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel back | can | We | Europe | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to europe=Destination | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the dream boy with the fair hair | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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