The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 1
‘Seven girls live in a hut down there,’ replied the boy, pointing with his finger to where the sun was setting.
Who acts: Seven girls, sun · What happens: live, reply, point, set · To what, where: hut, boy
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Seven girls, sun), 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 live | punct |
| 2 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 girls | nummod |
| 3 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | nsubj |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 hut | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hut | det |
| 7 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 live | obl |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 there | advmod |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 live | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 boy | det |
| 14 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pointing | punct |
| 16 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 replied | advcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 finger | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 finger | nmod:poss |
| 19 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pointing | obl |
| 20 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 25 setting | mark |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 setting | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sun | det |
| 23 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 setting | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 setting | aux |
| 25 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 pointing | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Seven girls | a hut; there | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the boy | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent boy=Topic | |||||
| 3 | point | gerund | with boy's finger | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | set | past · progressive | the sun | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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