The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 76
With a bound the deer sprang on the roof, and lay down where none could see her, but as she did so she called out, ‘Go in, fisher’s son, and eat and drink while you may.’
Who acts: deer, none, woman · What happens: spring, lay down, see, call out, go in, eat · To what, where: roof, woman
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 (deer, none, woman), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 bound | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bound | det |
| 3 | bound | bound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sprang | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 deer | det |
| 5 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sprang | nsubj |
| 6 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 roof | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 roof | det |
| 9 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sprang | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lay | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lay | cc |
| 12 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sprang | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 lay | compound:prt |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 see | advmod |
| 15 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 17 see | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 lay | advcl |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 see | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 called | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 called | cc |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 did | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 did | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 called | aux |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 called | advmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 called | nsubj |
| 26 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 sprang | conj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 called | compound:prt |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Go | punct |
| 29 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 Go | punct |
| 30 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 sprang | parataxis |
| 31 | in | in | ADV | _ | 30 Go | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 son | punct |
| 33 | fisher | fisher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 son | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 33 fisher | case |
| 35 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Go | vocative |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 eat | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 eat | cc |
| 38 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 30 Go | parataxis |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 drink | cc |
| 40 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 38 eat | conj |
| 41 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 43 may | mark |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 43 may | nsubj |
| 43 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 drink | advcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 Go | punct |
| 45 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | the deer | the roof | with a bound | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on roof=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | lay down | infinitive | the deer not said here | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | could | none | woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | call out speech: assert | past · do-support | woman | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | go in | infinitive | fisher's son vocative | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | eat | infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | drink | infinitive | 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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