The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 114
‘I think the twirling of the weathercock on the roof bodes ill,’ said he; ‘we shall have a storm.’
Who acts: I, twirling, we · What happens: think, bode, say, have · To what, where: storm · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, twirling, we), 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 think | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | ccomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 twirling | det |
| 5 | twirling | twirling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bodes | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 weathercock | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 weathercock | det |
| 8 | weathercock | weathercock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 twirling | nmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 roof | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 roof | det |
| 11 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 weathercock | nmod |
| 12 | bodes | bode | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | ccomp |
| 13 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bodes | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 have | aux |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 storm | det |
| 24 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 have | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bode | present | the twirling of the weathercock on the roof | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | twirling | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | have | shall | we | a storm | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent storm=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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