The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 84
‘The old ones are finished, and the new ones are not yet come,’ answered the girl.
Who acts: new ones · What happens: finish, not be, answer · To what, where: old ones, girl
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 (new ones), 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 | _ | 6 finished | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ones | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ones | amod |
| 4 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 finished | aux:pass |
| 6 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 answered | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 come | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ones | det |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ones | amod |
| 11 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 come | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 come | advmod |
| 14 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 come | advmod |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 finished | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 finished | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 finished | punct |
| 18 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 girl | det |
| 20 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 answered | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | present · passive | the old ones | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | not is | present | the new ones | yet | come property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the girl | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent girl=Eventuality |
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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