The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 67
‘Yes,’ she answered, ‘it was going very quickly.’
Who acts: snake, pot · What happens: answer, go · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (snake, pot), 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 answered | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 6 answered | cc |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 going | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 going | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 going | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 going | aux |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 answered | ccomp |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 quickly | advmod |
| 13 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 11 going | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 going | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | snake | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | pot | quickly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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