The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 86

‘Djulung cannot be dead, or his body would be floating on the surface,’ she said to herself, and rising to her feet she set out homewards, feeling all of a sudden strangely tired.

Who acts: Djulung, body · What happens: not be, float, say, rise, set out, feel · To what, where: surface, body, feet, homewards, all · 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 (Djulung, body), 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	_	6 dead	punct
2	Djulung	Djulung	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dead	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 dead	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 dead	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 dead	cop
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 floating	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 floating	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 body	nmod:poss
10	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 floating	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 floating	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 floating	aux
13	floating	float	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 dead	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 surface	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 surface	det
16	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 floating	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dead	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 dead	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 herself	case
22	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 said	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 set	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 set	cc
25	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 set	advcl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 feet	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 feet	nmod:poss
28	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 rising	obl
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 set	nsubj
30	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 said	conj
31	out	out	ADP	_	30 set	compound:prt
32	homewards	homeward	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 set	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 feeling	punct
34	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 set	advcl
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 feeling	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 sudden	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 sudden	det
38	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 all	nmod
39	strangely	strangely	ADV	_	40 tired	advmod
40	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 sudden	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	can	Djulung				dead property	tree rules
2	float	would · progressive	Djulung's body			the surface		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on surface=Trajectory
3	say speech: assert	past	body		body			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient
4	rise	gerund	body not said here			body's feet		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial_Location
5	set out	past	body	homewards				tree rules
6	feel	gerund	body not said here	all				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=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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