The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 71
No, not a flower this time, for he clasped it too tight.
Who acts: Moti · What happens: clasp · To what, where: garden
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 (Moti), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 flower | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 flower | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 flower | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 flower | det |
| 5 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flower | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 clasped | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 clasped | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 clasped | nsubj |
| 11 | clasped | clasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 time | acl:relcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 clasped | obj |
| 13 | too | too | ADV | _ | 14 tight | advmod |
| 14 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 clasped | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flower | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clasp | past | Moti | garden | tight property | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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