The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 43
‘Your property, certainly,’ answered the son, and his father nodded.
Who acts: property, father · What happens: answer, nod · To what, where: son
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 (property, father), 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 property | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 property | nmod:poss |
| 3 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 certainly | punct |
| 5 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 3 property | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 property | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 property | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 son | det |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 nodded | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 nodded | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 nodded | nsubj |
| 15 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Your property | the son | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent son=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | nod | past | property's father | 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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