The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 25
‘Well,’ he said, ‘where has Little Lasse been so long?’
Who acts: gardener · What happens: say, have, be · To what, where: Little · 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 (gardener), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 has | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 has | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 has | advmod |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 long | advcl |
| 11 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 has | obj |
| 12 | Lasse | Lasse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Little | flat |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 long | cop |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 long | advmod |
| 15 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 said | advmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | gardener | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have | present | Little | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | participle | long property | 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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