The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 151
‘Yes,’ said Aina, ‘if we had only two good meat sandwiches now.’
Who acts: we · What happens: say, have · To what, where: Aina, two good meat sandwiches · 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), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Aina | Aina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Aina | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Aina | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 had | mark |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | advcl |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 two | advmod |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 sandwiches | nummod |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sandwiches | amod |
| 15 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sandwiches | compound |
| 16 | sandwiches | sandwich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 had | obj |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 had | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Aina | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent aina=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | we | two good meat sandwiches | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sandwich=Patient |
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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