The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 11
‘I have a sister who dwells on the road which you must travel.
Who acts: I, sister, road · What happens: have, dwell, travel · To what, where: sister, road
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sister, road), 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 | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sister | det |
| 5 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 dwells | nsubj |
| 7 | dwells | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sister | acl:relcl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 road | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 road | det |
| 10 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dwells | obl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 travel | nsubj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 travel | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 travel | aux |
| 14 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 road | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | a sister | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Patient | ||||
| 2 | dwell | present | a sister | the road | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on road=Location | ||||
| 3 | travel | must | the road | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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