The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 15
But at parting the second sister said to him, as she gave him another pair of shoes:
Who acts: sister · What happens: part, say, give · To what, where: second sister, son, pair · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sister), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 2 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 3 parting | mark |
| 3 | parting | part | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sister | det |
| 5 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 sister | amod |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 parting | obj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 gave | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | iobj |
| 15 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 pair | det |
| 16 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 shoes | case |
| 18 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 pair | nmod |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | part | gerund | the second sister | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Patient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | give | past | sister | another pair of shoes | son | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient pair=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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