The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 42
‘You speak sense,’ answered the king, and silence prevailed for some time longer.
Who acts: You, silence · What happens: speak, answer, prevail · To what, where: sense, king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, silence), 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 | _ | 3 speak | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 speak | nsubj |
| 3 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 speak | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 speak | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 prevailed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 prevailed | cc |
| 12 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 prevailed | nsubj |
| 13 | prevailed | prevail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 answered | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 prevailed | obl |
| 17 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 prevailed | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | You | sense | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | You not said here | the king | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | prevail | past | silence | time | long property | vn exist-47.1 «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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