The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 85
‘Nothing,’ said his wife; but all the time she was pondering over some magic rhymes she had heard in her childhood from an old lame man, which were supposed to bring luck in fishing.
Who acts: Nothing, wife · What happens: say, ponder, hear, suppose, bring · To what, where: wife, magic rhymes, childhood, old lame man, luck, fishing · 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 (Nothing, wife), 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 Nothing | punct |
| 2 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nothing | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nothing | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 pondering | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 pondering | cc |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 time | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pondering | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pondering | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 pondering | aux |
| 15 | pondering | ponder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | advcl |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 rhymes | case |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 rhymes | det |
| 18 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 rhymes | amod |
| 19 | rhymes | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pondering | obl |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 heard | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 heard | aux |
| 22 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 rhymes | acl:relcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 childhood | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 childhood | nmod:poss |
| 25 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 heard | obl |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 man | case |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 man | det |
| 28 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 man | amod |
| 29 | lame | lame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 man | amod |
| 30 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 heard | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 supposed | punct |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 supposed | aux:pass |
| 34 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 man | acl:relcl |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 bring | mark |
| 36 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 supposed | xcomp |
| 37 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 bring | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 fishing | case |
| 39 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 bring | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Nothing | Ahti's wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wife=Topic | ||||
| 2 | ponder | past · progressive | wife | some magic rhymes | time | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | hear | past · perfect | wife | some magic rhymes not said here | wife's childhood | from a old lame man | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent rhyme=Topic from man=Source | ||
| 4 | suppose | past · passive | a old lame man | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bring | to-infinitive | luck | fishing | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=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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