The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 67
‘I shall seize Hercules on the coast of Asia,’ said Lasse, ‘and then row home again to Europe.’
Who acts: I, Lasse · What happens: seize, say, row · To what, where: Hercules, coast, Europe · 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 seize | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 seize | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 seize | aux |
| 4 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 seize | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 coast | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 coast | det |
| 8 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seize | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Asia | case |
| 10 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 coast | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 seize | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 seize | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Lasse | Lasse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 row | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 row | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 row | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 row | advmod |
| 19 | row | row | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 20 | home | home | ADV | _ | 19 row | advmod |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 row | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Europe | case |
| 23 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 row | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 row | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 row | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | shall | I | Hercules | the coast of Asia | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hercules=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Lasse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | row | infinitive | Europe | then; again | home property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to europe=Trajectory |
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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