The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 152
As she said that, she felt something in her hand, and when she looked down, she saw a large sandwich of bread and chicken, and at the same time Lisa said: ‘How very queer!
Who acts: Aina, Lisa · What happens: say, feel, look down, see · To what, where: that, something, hand, large sandwich · 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 (Aina, 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 said | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 felt | advcl |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 said | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 felt | nsubj |
| 7 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 felt | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hand | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hand | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 felt | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 looked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 looked | cc |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 looked | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 looked | nsubj |
| 16 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 felt | conj |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 looked | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 saw | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 looked | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 sandwich | det |
| 22 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sandwich | amod |
| 23 | sandwich | sandwich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 saw | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 bread | case |
| 25 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sandwich | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 chicken | cc |
| 27 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sandwich | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 said | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 said | cc |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 time | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 time | det |
| 32 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 time | amod |
| 33 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 said | obl |
| 34 | Lisa | Lisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 said | nsubj |
| 35 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 felt | conj |
| 36 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 40 queer | punct |
| 37 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 40 queer | punct |
| 38 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 40 queer | advmod |
| 39 | very | very | ADV | _ | 40 queer | advmod |
| 40 | queer | queer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 said | ccomp |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Aina | that | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | Aina | something | Aina's hand | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent something=Theme in hand=Location | |||
| 3 | look down | past | Aina | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | see | past | Aina | a large sandwich of bread and chicken | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sandwich=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Lisa | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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