The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 19
‘We shall require a better house,’ said Maie the following summer; ‘the old one is too small for ourselves and the men.’
Who acts: We, Maie, old one · What happens: require, say, follow, be · To what, where: better house · 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, Maie, old one), 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 require | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 require | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 require | aux |
| 4 | require | require | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 house | amod |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 require | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 require | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 require | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Maie | Maie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 summer | det |
| 13 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 summer | amod |
| 14 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 small | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 small | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 one | det |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 one | amod |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 small | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 small | cop |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 22 small | advmod |
| 22 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | parataxis |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 ourselves | case |
| 24 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 small | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 men | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 men | det |
| 27 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 ourselves | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 small | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 small | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | require | shall | We | a better house | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Maie | summer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | the old one | for ourselves; small property | tree rules |
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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