The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 89
‘Someone has eaten our dinner again,’ cried they.
Who acts: Someone, men · What happens: eat, cry · To what, where: dinner
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 (Someone, men), 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 eaten | punct |
| 2 | Someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 eaten | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 eaten | aux |
| 4 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eaten | obj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 eaten | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 eaten | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 eaten | conj |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 eaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present · perfect | Someone | our dinner | again | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | men = man | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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