The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 51
‘It is my wife,’ he cried, springing to where she sat with the sleeping child in her lap.
Who acts: part, king, teller · What happens: be, cry, spring, sit · To what, where: wife, lap
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 (part, king, teller), 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 | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wife | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wife | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wife | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 wife | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 springing | punct |
| 11 | springing | spring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 cried | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 where | case |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 sat | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sat | nsubj |
| 15 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 springing | advcl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 child | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 child | det |
| 18 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 child | compound |
| 19 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sat | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 lap | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 lap | nmod:poss |
| 22 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sat | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | part | my wife | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | king | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | spring | gerund | king not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sit | past | teller | teller's lap | with the sleeping child | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in lap=Location |
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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