The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 65
‘That will teach you to sell my property,’ said she, when her arm was quite tired, but Ian her son answered her nothing, and went off to his bed, for he was very sore.
Who acts: That, mother, arm, Ian son, son · What happens: teach, sell, say, be, answer, go off · To what, where: you, property, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (That, mother, arm, Ian son), 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 teach | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 teach | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 teach | aux |
| 4 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 teach | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 sell | mark |
| 7 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 teach | xcomp |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 property | nmod:poss |
| 9 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sell | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 teach | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 teach | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tired | punct |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 20 tired | mark |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 arm | nmod:poss |
| 17 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tired | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 tired | cop |
| 19 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 20 tired | advmod |
| 20 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 answered | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 answered | cc |
| 23 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 son | compound |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 son | nmod:poss |
| 25 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 answered | nsubj |
| 26 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | parataxis |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 nothing | nmod:poss |
| 28 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 26 answered | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 went | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 went | cc |
| 31 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | parataxis |
| 32 | off | off | ADP | _ | 31 went | compound:prt |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 bed | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 bed | nmod:poss |
| 35 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 went | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 sore | punct |
| 37 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 41 sore | mark |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 sore | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 sore | cop |
| 40 | very | very | ADV | _ | 41 sore | advmod |
| 41 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 went | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | future | That | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | sell | to-infinitive | That not said here | my property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is | past | mother's arm | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | answer speech: assert | past | mother's Ian son | nothing | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | go off | past | to son's bed | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is | past | son | sore 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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