The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 140
A boy and a girl were running on the shore and calling out, ‘Little Lasse!
Who acts: boy · What happens: run, call out · To what, where: shore
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 (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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 running | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 girl | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 running | aux |
| 7 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 shore | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shore | det |
| 10 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 running | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 calling | cc |
| 12 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 running | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 calling | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Lasse | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 Lasse | punct |
| 16 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Lasse | amod |
| 17 | Lasse | Lasse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 calling | xcomp |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 running | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past · progressive | a boy and a girl | the shore | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | gerund | a boy and a girl not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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