The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 54

The lady looked at him quite amazed, and swinging her head from side to side like a great scholar, ‘Well,’ says she, ‘Maurice, if you’re not a poet, where is poetry to be found?’

Who acts: lady, you · What happens: look, swing, say, not be, be, find · To what, where: head, side, lady, poet, poetry · 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 (lady, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lady	det
2	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	obl
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 amazed	advmod
7	amazed	amazed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looked	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 swinging	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 swinging	cc
10	swinging	swing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 looked	advcl
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 head	nmod:poss
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swinging	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 side	case
14	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swinging	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 side	case
16	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swinging	obl
17	like	like	ADP	_	20 scholar	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 scholar	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 scholar	amod
20	scholar	scholar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swinging	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 says	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 says	punct
23	Well	well	INTJ	_	26 says	discourse
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Well	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 says	punct
26	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	parataxis
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 says	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Maurice	punct
29	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 Maurice	punct
30	Maurice	maurice	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 she	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 ’re	punct
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 ’re	mark
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 ’re	nsubj
34	’re	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 says	conj
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 ’re	advmod
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 poet	det
37	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 ’re	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 poetry	punct
39	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	41 poetry	advmod
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 poetry	cop
41	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 poet	appos
42	to	to	PART	_	44 found	mark
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 found	aux:pass
44	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 poetry	acl
45	?	?	PUNCT	_	26 says	punct
46	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	the lady			at honour; amazed property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
2	swing	gerund	the lady not said here	lady's head	side	to side result; like a great scholar	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient head=Extent from side=Initial_State to side=Result
3	say speech: assert	present		lady			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic
4	not does a condition, not said to happen	present	you	a poet			vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot poet=Theme
5	is a	present		poetry			tree rules
6	find	to-infinitive · passive	you not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»

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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