The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 67
‘I will not stay here to be beaten,’ thought he, and he walked and he walked and he walked, till it was day again, and he was hungry and looked about him to see if he could get anything to eat.
Who acts: I, son, gun · What happens: not stay, beat, think, walk, be, look · To what, where: son, anything · 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 (I, son, gun), 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 | _ | 5 stay | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 stay | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 stay | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 stay | advmod |
| 5 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 stay | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 beaten | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 beaten | aux:pass |
| 9 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stay | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stay | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 stay | punct |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 thought | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 walked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 walked | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 walked | nsubj |
| 17 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 thought | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 walked | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 walked | nsubj |
| 20 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 walked | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 walked | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 walked | nsubj |
| 23 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 walked | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 day | punct |
| 25 | till | till | ADP | _ | 28 day | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 day | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 day | cop |
| 28 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 walked | obl |
| 29 | again | again | ADV | _ | 28 day | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 hungry | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 hungry | cc |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 hungry | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 hungry | cop |
| 34 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 walked | advcl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 looked | cc |
| 36 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 walked | conj |
| 37 | about | about | ADP | _ | 38 him | case |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 looked | obl |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 see | mark |
| 40 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 looked | advcl |
| 41 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 44 get | mark |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 get | nsubj |
| 43 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 get | aux |
| 44 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 see | ccomp |
| 45 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 44 get | obj |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 eat | mark |
| 47 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 anything | acl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stay | future | I | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | beat | to-infinitive · passive | I not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | son | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | walk | past | son | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | walk | past | son | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | walk | past | son | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is | past | gun | till day; again | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | is | past | son | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | look | past | son not said here | about son | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme | ||||
| 10 | see | to-infinitive | son not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 11 | get a condition, not said to happen | could | son | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 12 | eat | to-infinitive | son not said here | anything not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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