The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 66
‘Well, some thief must have stolen them while I slept.
Who acts: I · What happens: steal, sleep · To what, where: thief
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 (I), 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 | _ | 8 stolen | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 stolen | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 thief | det |
| 5 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 stolen | aux |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 stolen | aux |
| 8 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stolen | obj |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 slept | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 slept | nsubj |
| 12 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stolen | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stolen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | must · perfect · passive | some thief | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary they=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sleep | past | I | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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