The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 113
‘Dead!’ he repeated, stepping a little backwards.
Who acts: pause · What happens: repeat, step · To what, where: little
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pause), 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 | _ | 2 Dead | punct |
| 2 | Dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 repeated | ccomp |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dead | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dead | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 repeated | nsubj |
| 6 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stepping | punct |
| 8 | stepping | step | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 repeated | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 little | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stepping | obj |
| 11 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 8 stepping | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | past | pause | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | step | gerund | pause not said here | a little | backwards property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location little=Theme |
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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