The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 38
‘Yes, of course,’ laughed Matte, ‘and we have also three plants of garlic.
Who acts: we · What happens: laugh, have · To what, where: Matte, three plants
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 (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 | _ | 8 laughed | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 laughed | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 of | punct |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 2 Yes | advmod |
| 5 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 of | fixed |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 8 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Matte | Matte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 laughed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 laughed | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 laughed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 have | cc |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 laughed | conj |
| 15 | also | also | ADV | _ | 16 three | advmod |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 plants | nummod |
| 17 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 have | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 garlic | case |
| 19 | garlic | garlic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 plants | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | Matte | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matte=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | present | we | three plants of garlic | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=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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