The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 5
‘I never spend Hallowe’en yet without cracking a nut’; and he cracked one.
Who acts: I, Hallowe’en · What happens: not spend, crack · To what, where: Hallowe’en, nut, one
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 (I, Hallowe’en), 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 | _ | 4 spend | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 spend | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 spend | advmod |
| 4 | spend | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Hallowe’en | Hallowe'en | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spend | obj |
| 6 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 4 spend | advmod |
| 7 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 8 cracking | mark |
| 8 | cracking | crack | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 spend | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 nut | det |
| 10 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cracking | obj |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 cracking | punct |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 cracked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cracked | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cracked | nsubj |
| 15 | cracked | crack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spend | parataxis |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 cracked | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not spend | present | I | Hallowe’en | yet | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hallowe'en=Asset | |||
| 2 | crack | gerund | I not said here | a nut | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nut=Theme | ||||
| 3 | crack | past | Hallowe’en = hallowe'en | one | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme |
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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