The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 139

‘Now we shall go home,’ said Lina.

Who acts: we, Lina · What happens: go, say · 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 (we, Lina), 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 go	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 go	advmod
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Lina	Lina	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	shall	we				now	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Lina						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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