The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 76
‘The sun is hot,’ said the snake, ‘and you have walked far.
Who acts: sun, you · What happens: be, say, walk · To what, where: snake · 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 (sun, 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 hot | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hot | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hot | cop |
| 5 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hot | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 hot | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 snake | det |
| 10 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 16 walked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 walked | cc |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 walked | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 walked | aux |
| 16 | walked | walk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | conj |
| 17 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 walked | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the sun | hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the snake | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent snake=Topic | |||||
| 3 | walk | present · perfect | you | far property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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