The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 43
I will load my gun and shoot the sparrows,’ said the gardener.
Who acts: I · What happens: load, shoot, say · To what, where: gun, sparrows, gardener · 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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 load | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 load | aux |
| 3 | load | load | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 gun | nmod:poss |
| 5 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 load | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 shoot | cc |
| 7 | shoot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 load | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sparrows | det |
| 9 | sparrows | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shoot | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 load | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 gardener | det |
| 14 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 load | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | load | future | I | my gun | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gun=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shoot | present | I not said here | the sparrows | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sparrow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the gardener | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent gardener=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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