The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 7

‘Oh, the youngest is at home, but she is always half asleep, and is of no use except to cut wood for the fire,’ replied they in a breath.

Who acts: six, youngest · What happens: be, cut, reply · To what, where: home, wood, breath

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 (six, youngest), 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	_	5 youngest	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 youngest	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 youngest	det
5	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 replied	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 home	cop
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 home	case
8	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 youngest	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 asleep	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 asleep	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 asleep	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 asleep	cop
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 half	advmod
14	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	15 asleep	advmod
15	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 youngest	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 use	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 use	cc
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 use	cop
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 use	case
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 use	det
21	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 asleep	conj
22	except	except	ADP	_	24 cut	mark
23	to	to	PART	_	24 cut	mark
24	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 use	acl
25	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cut	obj
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 fire	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 fire	det
28	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cut	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 youngest	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 youngest	punct
31	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 replied	nsubj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 breath	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 breath	det
35	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 replied	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present			home		tree rules
2	is	present	six			asleep, half property	tree rules
3	is	present	six not said here			of no use	tree rules
4	cut	to-infinitive	six not said here	wood		for the fire	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent wood=Product for fire=Asset
5	reply speech: assert	past	the youngest		a breath		vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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