The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 79
Neither of them troubled themselves in the least about Little Lasse, who was drifting out to sea.
Who acts: Neither, Little Lasse · What happens: trouble, drift out · To what, where: sticks, Little Lasse, sea
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 (Neither, Little 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 | Neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 troubled | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Neither | nmod |
| 4 | troubled | trouble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 troubled | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Lasse | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 least | det |
| 8 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 Lasse | nsubj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 Lasse | case |
| 10 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Lasse | amod |
| 11 | Lasse | Lasse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 troubled | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 drifting | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 drifting | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 drifting | aux |
| 15 | drifting | drift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 Lasse | acl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 drifting | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 sea | case |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drifting | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 troubled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trouble | past | Neither | sticks = stick | Little Lasse | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | drift out | past · progressive | Little Lasse | sea | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to sea=Destination |
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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