The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 6

‘Some one is cracking nuts up there,’ said one of the merry-makers in the farmhouse.

Who acts: one · What happens: crack, say · To what, where: nuts · 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 (one), 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 cracking	punct
2	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cracking	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cracking	aux
5	cracking	crack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	ccomp
6	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cracking	obj
7	up	up	ADV	_	8 there	advmod
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 cracking	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cracking	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 cracking	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 said	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 makers	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 makers	det
15	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 makers	amod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 merry	punct
17	makers	maker	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 farmhouse	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 farmhouse	det
20	farmhouse	farmhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 makers	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	present · progressive	some one	nuts		there			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nut=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	one of the merry makers in the farmhouse						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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