The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 50
Drink was strong in Maurice’s head, and out he chanted in return for her great civility.
Who acts: Drink, Maurice · What happens: be, chant · To what, where: head, return
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 (Drink, 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 | Drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 strong | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 strong | cop |
| 3 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 head | case |
| 5 | Maurice | Maurice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Maurice | case |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 strong | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 chanted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 chanted | cc |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 chanted | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 chanted | nsubj |
| 12 | chanted | chant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 strong | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 return | case |
| 14 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chanted | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 civility | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 civility | nmod:poss |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 civility | amod |
| 18 | civility | civility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 return | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Drink | Maurice's head | strong property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | chant | past | Maurice | return for fish's great civility | 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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