The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 83
It must have been poisoned.’
What happens: poison · To what, where: supper
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: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 poisoned | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 poisoned | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 poisoned | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 poisoned | aux:pass |
| 5 | poisoned | poison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 poisoned | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 poisoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | poison | must · perfect · passive | supper | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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