The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 92

‘But there are streaks in the north-western sky, and Prince was eating grass this evening,’ said the old man.

Who acts: Prince, old man · What happens: be, eat, say · To what, where: streaks, western sky, grass · 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 (Prince, old man), 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 streaks	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 are	cc
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 are	expl
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 streaks	cop
5	streaks	streak	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 said	ccomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	11 sky	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sky	det
8	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 western	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 north	punct
10	western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sky	amod
11	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 streaks	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 eating	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 eating	cc
14	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 eating	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 eating	aux
16	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 streaks	acl
17	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eating	obj
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 evening	det
19	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eating	obl:unmarked
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 streaks	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 man	det
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 man	amod
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	nsubj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	present		streaks	the western sky		tree rules
2	eat	past · progressive	Prince	grass		evening	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	the old man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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