The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 26
Little Lasse straightened himself up stiff, and answered: ‘I have sailed round the world in a pea-shell boat.’
Who acts: Little Lasse, I · What happens: straighten up, answer, sail · To what, where: Lasse, shell boat
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 (Little 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Lasse | amod |
| 2 | Lasse | Lasse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 straightened | nsubj |
| 3 | straightened | straighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 straightened | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 straightened | compound:prt |
| 6 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 straightened | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 answered | cc |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 straightened | parataxis |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 sailed | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 sailed | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 sailed | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sailed | aux |
| 14 | sailed | sail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 straightened | parataxis |
| 15 | round | round | ADP | _ | 17 world | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 world | det |
| 17 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sailed | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 boat | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 boat | det |
| 20 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shell | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 pea | punct |
| 22 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 boat | compound |
| 23 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sailed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 sailed | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 straightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | straighten up | past | Little Lasse | Lasse | stiff property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | sail | present · perfect | I | a shell boat | round the world | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent round world=Trajectory |
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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