The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 24
Then Maie said: ‘We have too little milk for all these folk.
Who acts: Maie, We · What happens: say, have · To what, where: little milk · 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 (Maie, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | Maie | Maie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 6 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 little | advmod |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 milk | amod |
| 10 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 folk | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 folk | det:predet |
| 13 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 folk | det |
| 14 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Maie | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have | present | We | little milk | for all folk | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=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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