The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 91
‘Yes,’ said Lasse in his sleep, ‘I should like to.’
Who acts: Lasse, I · What happens: say, like, sleep · To what, where: sleep · 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 (Lasse, I), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Lasse | Lasse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 sleep | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 like | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 like | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 like | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 like | aux |
| 14 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 like | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 like | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Lasse | Lasse's sleep | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | like | should | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | sleep | Lasse | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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