The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 73
Here she put her little fish, whose name was Djulung-djulung, and promising to return soon and bring him some dinner, she went away.
Who acts: stream, name, Djulung djulung · What happens: put, be, promise, return, bring, go away · To what, where: little fish, Djulung djulung, dinner, fish
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 (stream, name, Djulung djulung), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fish | nmod:poss |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fish | amod |
| 6 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 djulung | punct |
| 8 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 9 name | nmod:poss |
| 9 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 djulung | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 djulung | cop |
| 11 | Djulung | Djulung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 djulung | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Djulung | punct |
| 13 | djulung | djulung | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fish | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 promising | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 promising | cc |
| 16 | promising | promise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 put | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 return | mark |
| 18 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 promising | xcomp |
| 19 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 return | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bring | cc |
| 21 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 return | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bring | obj |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 dinner | det |
| 24 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bring | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 went | punct |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 went | nsubj |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 27 went | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | stream | stream's little fish and Djulung djulung | here | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fish=Goal | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Djulung djulung's name | Djulung djulung | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | gerund | stream not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | return not said to happen | to-infinitive | stream not said here | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bring | infinitive | stream not said here | some dinner | fish | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination dinner=Theme | |||
| 6 | go away | past | stream | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | name | Djulung djulung | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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