The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 81
‘It is the man who is lying under the cask,’ answered the leader.
Who acts: dinner, man · What happens: be, lie, answer · To what, where: man, cask, leader
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 (dinner, man), 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 man | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 man | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 lying | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lying | aux |
| 8 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 man | acl:relcl |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 cask | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cask | det |
| 11 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lying | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 leader | det |
| 16 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 answered | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | dinner | the man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lie | present · progressive | the man | the cask | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under cask=Location | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the man | the leader | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent leader=Eventuality |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/16/81/