The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 55
‘This will do very well,’ thought Moti as they whirled in at the entrance.
Who acts: This, horses · What happens: do, think, whirl · To what, where: Moti, entrance · 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 (This, horses), 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 | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 well | advmod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 do | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Moti | Moti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | obj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 whirled | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 whirled | nsubj |
| 13 | whirled | whirl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADV | _ | 13 whirled | advmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 entrance | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 entrance | det |
| 17 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 whirled | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | future | This | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Moti | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent moti=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | whirl | past | horses = horse | the entrance | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at entrance=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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