The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 104
‘I will come to-morrow,’ she whispered, though he could not hear her, and she went sorrowfully away.
Who acts: I, look, robber · What happens: come, whisper, not hear, go · To what, where: morrow, look
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, look, robber), 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 come | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 morrow | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 to | punct |
| 7 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 whispered | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 whispered | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 whispered | nsubj |
| 11 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hear | punct |
| 13 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 17 hear | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hear | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 hear | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 hear | advmod |
| 17 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 whispered | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hear | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 went | nsubj |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 whispered | conj |
| 23 | sorrowfully | sorrowfully | ADV | _ | 24 away | advmod |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 went | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | future | I | morrow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | look | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not hear | could | robber | look | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | go | past | look | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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