The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 44
All very well for Prince, who fights with the gulls over the last morsel.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: fight
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 (Prince), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 Prince | det |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 All | fixed |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 Prince | case |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 fights | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fights | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 fights | nsubj |
| 8 | fights | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 gulls | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gulls | det |
| 11 | gulls | gull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fights | obl |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 morsel | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 morsel | det |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 morsel | amod |
| 15 | morsel | morsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fights | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fights | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | present | all Prince | with the gulls; over the last morsel | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with gull=Co-Agent over morsel=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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