The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 89
‘We shall soon be warm now,’ said the people one to another.
Who acts: We · What happens: be, say · To what, where: people · 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 (We), 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 | _ | 6 warm | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 warm | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 warm | aux |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 warm | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 warm | cop |
| 6 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 warm | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 warm | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 warm | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 people | det |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 people | flat |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 another | case |
| 15 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 one | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | shall | We | now | soon, warm property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent people=Topic |
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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