The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 102
‘And supposing someone had eaten the raspberry,’ said Lisa.
Who acts: someone, Lisa · What happens: suppose, eat, say · To what, where: raspberry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (someone, Lisa), 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 | _ | 3 supposing | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 supposing | cc |
| 3 | supposing | suppose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 eaten | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 eaten | aux |
| 6 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 supposing | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 raspberry | det |
| 8 | raspberry | raspberry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eaten | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 supposing | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 supposing | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Lisa | Lisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | gerund | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | eat | past · perfect | someone | the raspberry | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raspberry=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Lisa | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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