The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 88
Then Nukku Matti said to one of the Dreams, ‘Play with Little Lasse, so that he does not feel lonesome.’
Who acts: Nukku · What happens: say, not feel · To what, where: one, lonesome · 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 (Nukku), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | Nukku | Nukku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 3 | Matti | Matti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Nukku | flat |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 one | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Dreams | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Dreams | det |
| 9 | Dreams | Dream | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Play | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Play | punct |
| 12 | Play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Dreams | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 Little | case |
| 14 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Play | nmod |
| 15 | Lasse | Lasse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Little | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 feel | punct |
| 17 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 22 feel | mark |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 so | fixed |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 feel | nsubj |
| 20 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 feel | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 feel | advmod |
| 22 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 23 | lonesome | lonesome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 feel | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 feel | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Nukku | one of the Dreams and Play with Little | then | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to one=Experiencer clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | not feel | present · do-support | Nukku | lonesome | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lonesome=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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