The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 1
‘No; they are frying pancakes in Europe just now,’ said Little Lasse; and he wanted to jump ashore, but he could not.
Who acts: they, Little Lasse, Lasse · What happens: fry, say, want, jump · To what, where: pancakes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they, Little Lasse, 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 | _ | 6 frying | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 frying | discourse |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 frying | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 frying | aux |
| 6 | frying | fry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 said | ccomp |
| 7 | pancakes | pancake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 frying | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Europe | case |
| 9 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 frying | obl |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 now | advmod |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 frying | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 frying | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 frying | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Lasse | amod |
| 16 | Lasse | Lasse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 wanted | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wanted | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wanted | nsubj |
| 20 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 jump | mark |
| 22 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 wanted | xcomp |
| 23 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 22 jump | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 could | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 could | cc |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 could | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 wanted | conj |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 could | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fry | present · progressive | they | pancakes | now | in Europe | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pancake=Patient in europe=Instrument | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Little Lasse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | want | past | Lasse | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | jump not said to happen | to-infinitive | Lasse not said here | ashore property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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