The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 65
‘I shall row out a little way--only a very little way,’ he thought.
Who acts: I, Lasse · What happens: row out, think · To what, where: little way · 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, Lasse), 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 row | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 row | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 row | aux |
| 4 | row | row | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 thought | ccomp |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 row | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 row | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 way | punct |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 way | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 way | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 little | advmod |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 way | amod |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 way | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 row | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 row | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 thought | nsubj |
| 18 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | row out | shall | I | a little way and a little way | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Lasse | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=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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