The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 15
‘Brave music,’ said everybody, ‘and well done,’ when Maurice stopped.
Who acts: everybody, Maurice · What happens: say, do, stop · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everybody, Maurice), 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 music | punct |
| 2 | Brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 music | amod |
| 3 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 music | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 music | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 12 done | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 done | cc |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 done | advmod |
| 12 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 said | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 done | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 done | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 stopped | advmod |
| 16 | Maurice | Maurice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 stopped | nsubj |
| 17 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 done | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | everybody | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do | participle | everybody not said here | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | stop | past | Maurice | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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.
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