The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 108
‘Now it is crawling on the table,’ cried Aina again.
Who acts: bite · What happens: crawl, cry · To what, where: table · 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 (bite), 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 crawling | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 crawling | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 crawling | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 crawling | aux |
| 5 | crawling | crawl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 cried | ccomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 table | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 table | det |
| 8 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crawling | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 crawling | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 crawling | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Aina | Aina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | flat |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 cried | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crawl | present · progressive | bite | the table | now | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on table=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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