The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 142
‘Shall we land here?’ asked the dream-boy, and he blinked his blue eyes roguishly.
Who acts: we, boy · What happens: land, ask, blink · To what, where: dream boy, blue eyes · 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, 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 land | punct |
| 2 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 land | aux |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 land | nsubj |
| 4 | land | land | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 land | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 land | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 land | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 10 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 boy | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 dream | punct |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 blinked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 blinked | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 blinked | nsubj |
| 16 | blinked | blink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 eyes | amod |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 blinked | obj |
| 20 | roguishly | roguishly | ADV | _ | 16 blinked | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | shall | we | here | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the dream boy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | blink | past | boy | boy's blue eyes | roguishly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=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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