The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 19
He had a wife called Maie; could you find a better name for her?
Who acts: fisherman, you · What happens: have, call, find · To what, where: wife, better name · 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 (fisherman, you), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 wife | det |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wife | acl |
| 6 | Maie | Maie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 called | xcomp |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 find | punct |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 find | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 find | nsubj |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 name | det |
| 12 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 name | amod |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 find | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 find | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | fisherman | a wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | a wife not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | find | could | you | a better name | for Maie | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent name=Theme for she=Beneficiary |
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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