The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 5
I’ve got no daughter-in-law, and nobody has been married lately, that I ever heard of.’
Who acts: I · What happens: get, marry, hear · To what, where: daughter, nobody
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 2 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | aux |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 daughter | det |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 law | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 law | case |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 in | punct |
| 9 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 married | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 married | cc |
| 12 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 married | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 married | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 married | aux:pass |
| 15 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 got | conj |
| 16 | lately | lately | ADV | _ | 15 married | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 heard | punct |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 heard | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 heard | nsubj |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 heard | advmod |
| 21 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 heard | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | I | no daughter and law | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | marry | present · perfect · passive | nobody | lately property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | I | ever | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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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