The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 90
‘No,’ said her husband, ‘it is a Saturday night.’
Who acts: net · What happens: say, be · To what, where: husband, Saturday night · 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 (net), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 husband | nmod:poss |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 night | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 night | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 night | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 night | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 night | det |
| 13 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 night | compound |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 husband | appos |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | wife's husband | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent husband=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | net | a Saturday night | tree rules |
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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