The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 146
‘Perhaps we should sail back to Polynesia now?’ said the happy dream-boy.
Who acts: we · What happens: sail back, say · To what, where: Polynesia · 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), 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 | _ | 5 sail | punct |
| 2 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 sail | advmod |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 sail | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 sail | aux |
| 5 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 sail | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Polynesia | case |
| 8 | Polynesia | Polynesia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sail | obl |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 sail | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 sail | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 sail | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 boy | det |
| 14 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 boy | amod |
| 15 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 boy | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 dream | punct |
| 17 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail back | should | we | Polynesia | now | perhaps property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to polynesia=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | 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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