The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 5
‘Are you a woman, or a spirit of the woods?’
Who acts: you · What happens: be · To what, where: woman
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 (you), 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 | _ | 5 woman | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 woman | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 woman | nsubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 spirit | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 spirit | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 spirit | det |
| 9 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 woman | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 woods | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woods | det |
| 12 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 spirit | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 woman | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 woman | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | you | a woman | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/21/5/