The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 95
‘Listen to me,’ said his wife, ‘we will set only one net close to the shore, and then we shall be able to finish up our half-filled cask, which will spoil if it stands open so long.’
Who acts: we, filled cask, net · What happens: listen, say, set, be, finish up, fill · To what, where: me, wife, one net, filled cask · 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 (we, filled cask, 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 | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 2 | Listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Listen | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 set | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 set | punct |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 set | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 set | aux |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 one | advmod |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 net | nummod |
| 17 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 set | obj |
| 18 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 net | amod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 shore | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 shore | det |
| 21 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 close | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 able | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 able | cc |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 able | advmod |
| 25 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 able | nsubj |
| 26 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 able | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 able | cop |
| 28 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 set | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 finish | mark |
| 30 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 able | xcomp |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 finish | compound:prt |
| 32 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 cask | nmod:poss |
| 33 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 35 filled | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 half | punct |
| 35 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 cask | amod |
| 36 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 finish | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 spoil | punct |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 spoil | nsubj |
| 39 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 spoil | aux |
| 40 | spoil | spoil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 cask | acl:relcl |
| 41 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 43 stands | mark |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 stands | nsubj |
| 43 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 spoil | ccomp |
| 44 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 stands | xcomp |
| 45 | so | so | ADV | _ | 46 long | advmod |
| 46 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 43 stands | advmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 set | punct |
| 48 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | infinitive | me | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | weather's wife | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | set | future | we | one net | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient net=Result | ||||
| 4 | is | shall | we | then | able property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | finish up | to-infinitive | we not said here | our filled cask | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality cask=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | fill | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 7 | spoil | future | our filled cask | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | stand a condition, not said to happen | present | net | long, open property | vn assuming_position-50 «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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