The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 92
‘You have done more than enough in giving me back my hand,’ replied the girl; but the snake only smiled.
Who acts: You, snake · What happens: do, give back, reply, smile · To what, where: hand, me, girl
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, snake), 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 | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 done | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 7 enough | advmod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 more | fixed |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 done | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 giving | mark |
| 9 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 enough | advcl |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 giving | iobj |
| 11 | back | back | ADP | _ | 9 giving | compound:prt |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hand | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 giving | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 replied | punct |
| 16 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 girl | det |
| 18 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 replied | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 smiled | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 smiled | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 snake | det |
| 22 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 smiled | nsubj |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 smiled | advmod |
| 24 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · perfect | You | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give back | gerund | You not said here | my hand | me | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient hand=Theme | |||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the girl | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent girl=Topic | |||||
| 4 | smile | past | the snake | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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