The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 137
‘No, let us gather a few more,’ said Lisa.
Who acts: us, Lisa · What happens: let, gather, say · To what, where: us, more · 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 (us, 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 | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 let | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 few | det |
| 8 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 more | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 gather | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Lisa | Lisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | gather | infinitive | us not said here | more | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme | ||||
| 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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