The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 29
‘Oh, sire!’ panted the messenger, ‘fly at once, there is no time to lose.
Who acts: sire, time · What happens: pant, be, lose · To what, where: messenger
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 (sire, time), 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 sire | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 sire | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 panted | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 sire | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 sire | punct |
| 7 | panted | pant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 messenger | det |
| 9 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 panted | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fly | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 fly | punct |
| 12 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 messenger | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 once | case |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 panted | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 is | punct |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 is | expl |
| 17 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 panted | parataxis |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 time | det |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 is | nsubj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 lose | mark |
| 21 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 time | acl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 panted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pant | past | sire | the messenger and fly | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Topic | ||||
| 2 | be | present | no time | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lose | to-infinitive | no time not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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