The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 69
Ditsch, ratsch, a man is a man, and so Little Lasse manned the boat.
Who acts: man, Ditsch · What happens: be, man · To what, where: man, boat
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 (man, Ditsch), 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 | Ditsch | Ditsch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 manned | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ratsch | punct |
| 3 | ratsch | ratsch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ditsch | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 man | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 man | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 man | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ditsch | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 manned | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 manned | cc |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 manned | advmod |
| 13 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 manned | nsubj |
| 14 | Lasse | Lasse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Little | flat |
| 15 | manned | man | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 boat | det |
| 17 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 manned | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 manned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a man | a man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | man | past | Ditsch | the boat | tree rules |
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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