The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 51
‘Bring us a junket, good mother,’ cried they to Maie.
Who acts: you, ’ · What happens: bring, cry · To what, where: junket, us, Matte, Maie
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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 2 | Bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Bring | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 junket | det |
| 5 | junket | junket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Bring | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mother | punct |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mother | amod |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Bring | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 mother | acl:relcl |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cried | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Maie | case |
| 14 | Maie | Maie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | imperative | you not said here | a junket | us | good mother obl | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination junket=Theme | ||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | ’ | Matte | Maie | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to maie=Recipient |
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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