The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 53
‘Why, it must be the sheep and the kid that I lost,’ said he.
Who acts: bleat, I, sheep · What happens: be, lose, say · To what, where: sheep, kid · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (bleat, I, sheep), 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 | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sheep | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sheep | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 sheep | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sheep | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sheep | det |
| 8 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 said | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 kid | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 kid | det |
| 11 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sheep | conj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 lost | obj |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 lost | nsubj |
| 14 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 kid | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sheep | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 sheep | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | must | bleat | the sheep and the kid | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lose | past | I | the kid | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the sheep and the kid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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