The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 35
‘We will pay the fine,’ said they, and the judge nodded.
Who acts: We, sons, judge · What happens: pay, say, nod · To what, where: fine · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, sons, judge), 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 pay | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 pay | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 pay | aux |
| 4 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fine | det |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pay | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 pay | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 pay | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 nodded | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 nodded | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 judge | det |
| 14 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 nodded | nsubj |
| 15 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | future | We | the fine | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fine=Asset | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | sons = son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | nod | past | the judge | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: 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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