The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 62
‘I wonder how it feels to be hanged,’ said the Shifty Lad.
Who acts: I, part, Shifty Lad · What happens: wonder, feel, hange, say · 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 (I, part, Shifty Lad), 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 | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wonder | nsubj |
| 3 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 feels | advmod |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 feels | nsubj |
| 6 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wonder | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 hanged | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hanged | aux:pass |
| 9 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 feels | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Lad | det |
| 14 | Shifty | shifty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Lad | amod |
| 15 | Lad | Lad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | present | I | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | feel | present | part | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hange | to-infinitive · passive | part not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Shifty Lad | 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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