The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 6
Many men live there as here, But they all to God are dear, Little Lasse, Lasse.
Who acts: Many men, all · What happens: live, be
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 (Many men, all), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 men | amod |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | nsubj |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 live | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 here | case |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 live | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dear | punct |
| 8 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 dear | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 all | nsubj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 dear | nsubj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 God | case |
| 12 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 all | nmod |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 dear | cop |
| 14 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 live | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Lasse | punct |
| 16 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Lasse | amod |
| 17 | Lasse | Lasse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 dear | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Lasse | punct |
| 19 | Lasse | Lasse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Lasse | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Many men | there | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | all | Little Lasse and Lasse obl; dear 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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