The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 14
‘It is all right,’ replied the Shifty Lad calmly.
Who acts: master · What happens: be, reply · To what, where: Shifty Lad
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master), 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 | _ | 5 right | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 right | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 right | cop |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 right | advmod |
| 5 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 right | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Lad | det |
| 10 | Shifty | shifty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Lad | amod |
| 11 | Lad | Lad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 12 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 8 replied | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 right | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | master | all, right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Shifty Lad | calmly property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lad=Topic |
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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