The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 30
‘Art thou satisfied now?’ said Matte to his wife.
Who acts: thou, Matte · What happens: satisfy, say · To what, where: wife · 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 (thou, Matte), 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 | _ | 2 Art | punct |
| 2 | Art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 satisfied | nsubj |
| 4 | satisfied | satisfy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Art | ccomp |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 satisfied | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Art | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Art | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Matte | Matte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 wife | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | satisfy | past | thou | now | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Matte | Matte's wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient |
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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